The Green Otter's State of Garbelia is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Lutra Otto with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, rampant corporate plagiarism, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.294 billion Garbeli 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 enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Garvida. The average income tax rate is 93.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Garbelery economy, worth 134 trillion CryptoGarbels a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 104,166 CryptoGarbels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security, older citizens lament over the loss of law and order, military officials are questioning the policy of ceding the nation's territory in exchange for promises not to invade it, and laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts. Crime is totally unknown. Garbelia's national animal is the Otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Lutrianism.

Garbelia is ranked 137,064^th in the world and 365^th in Forest for Largest Populations, with 1.29 billion Capita.