The Oppressed Peoples of Gurou is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Simoji with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, infamous sell-swords, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 784 million Gurouans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Administration are also considered important, while International Aid and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of WiyNei. The average income tax rate is 74.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Gurouan economy, worth 44.3 trillion Iousies 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Retail. 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 56,562 Iousies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is encouraging violence on television, museums have more touchscreens on display than artifacts, friendly fire incidents usually result in severe burns, and courses in how to boil water are popular for formerly microwave-reliant Gurouans. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gurou's national animal is the Deadly Garden Snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gurou is ranked 103,195^th in the world and 6,225^th in The North Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 55.42 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.