The Free Land of Gitche Manitou is a titanic, efficient nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, flagrant waste-dumping, and national health service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 12.548 billion Gitche Manitouans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.3%.

The all-consuming Gitche Manitouan economy, worth a remarkable 1,200 trillion Tobaccos a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 95,683 Tobaccos, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 388,838 per year while the poor average 15,649, a ratio of 24.8 to 1.

The easiest method of escaping from prison is to take singing lessons, libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, preservative manufacturers are told to put a lid on it, and terrorism and assassination are tried-and-true methods of political activism. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Gitche Manitou's national animal is the Spirit Animal, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Gitche Manitou is ranked 77,078^th in the world and 1^st in Turtle Island for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 124.5 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.