The Dominion of Gottamba is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its infamous sell-swords, keen interest in outer space, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed population of 721 million Gottambans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 52.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Gottamban economy, worth 35.7 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Cheese Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Furniture Restoration, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 49,533 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The rich and poor vomit into separate bags, invasive species are hunted by the gendarmerie, the past is set in stone, and solving crossword puzzles requires fluency in at least five languages. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gottamba's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gottamba is ranked 29,347^th in the world and 2^nd in New Karnaria for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 4,680.49 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.