The People's Republic of Gulagonesia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Fearless Leader with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 29.055 billion Gulagonesians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Leninki. The income tax rate is 100%.

The very strong Gulagonesian economy, worth a remarkable 5,441 trillion marlens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 187,269 marlens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Billions of marlens are being blown on orbital weapons development, Animal Liberationists are regularly arrested, Fearless Leader accepted United Federation theatrical awards for Best Writer and Best Actress on behalf of the absent recipients, and international television adverts praise the nation as a worker's paradise. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gulagonesia's national animal is the nauga, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Marxism-Leninism.

Gulagonesia is ranked 883^rd in the world and 1^st in Prettydragoon for Lowest Crime Rates, with 175.05 law-abiding acts per hour.