The Republic of Gilmic is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its pith helmet sales, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The devout population of 203 million Gilmicians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 51.5%.

The very strong Gilmician economy, worth 15.6 trillion Kurums a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 77,084 Kurums, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Rugby players that knock each other over always stop to make sure the other fellow is okay, death row is annually emptied to feed the nation's hunger for televised murder-games, forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies, and government employees have reverted to carrier pigeon due to never-ending virus scans. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gilmic's national animal is the Gilmician Horse, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Gilmic is ranked 142,224^th in the world and 436^th in Concord for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 37,385.95 Standard Monetary Units.