The Highlands of Gafflebag is a huge, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Jackson Stone with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 815 million Gaffleans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government prioritizes Industry, although Administration, Education, and Healthcare are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Malarkey. The average income tax rate is 31.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gafflean economy, worth 62.9 trillion gammons a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Retail. Average income is 77,163 gammons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Blackface performers claim they are being deliberately ironic, the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies, this year's televised Budget Forecast has been cancelled because there was already one last year, and President Jackson Stone has just been declared ruler of Gafflebag in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Gafflebag's national animal is the Gafflean rock macaque, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Gafflebag is ranked 78,907^th in the world and 2,921^st in The North Pacific for Most Politically Apathetic Citizens, with 51.62 Whatever.