The Direct Democracy of Gal Cradia is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Unity with a fair hand, and notable for its smutty television, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 10.157 billion Gal Cradians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Watama. The average income tax rate is 97.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Gal Cradian economy, worth a remarkable 1,982 trillion turnips a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 195,158 turnips, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains, it is mandatory to learn evolution in schools, viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows, and The Unity is called 'Patches' at international summits. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gal Cradia's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Gal Cradia is ranked 274,571^st in the world and 1,399^th in 10000 Islands for Highest Crime Rates, with 1.47 crimes per hour.