The Armed Technocracy of The Gelseen Hegemony is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Chancellor Speers with an even hand, and renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 16.947 billion Gelseens have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rovenoir. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Gelseen Hegemonyian economy, worth an astonishing 11,956 trillion Gold Dinars 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Tourism. 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 a breathtaking 705,532 Gold Dinars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Anyone who so much as frowns risks being referred to a mental health unit, search-and-rescue organisations are the biggest employer in the country, the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster, and some are born loving old plays and some have old plays thrust upon them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Gelseen Hegemony's national animal is the Red Falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Worship through Creation.

The Gelseen Hegemony is ranked 25,012^th in the world and 784^th in Lazarus for Largest Populations, with 16.9 billion capita.