The Divine Republic of North Gilead is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Sons of Jacob with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, lack of airports, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.473 billion Gileadeans 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Washington DC. The average income tax rate is 79.2%.

The thriving North Gileadian economy, worth 268 trillion Tokens 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 Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 an impressive 108,471 Tokens, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Government officials are phoning up good-looking celebrities to say they want to breed with them, a new apartment is worth a thousand betrayals, school uniforms are compulsory, and immigrant teachers use fat stacks of cash as teaching aids. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. North Gilead's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Gileadean Christianity.

North Gilead is ranked 286,807^th in the world and 94^th in Liberal Democratic Union for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -8.52 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.