The Federation of Garvinizia is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, lack of airports, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, devout population of 238 million Garvinizians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 40.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Garvinizian economy, worth 14.3 trillion Salvns a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Pizza Delivery, Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 59,968 Salvns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fur coats have become the latest fashion trend, grannies get pulled over for knitting pullovers while driving, dictionary sales have hit an all-time high, and statue-sitting has replaced the stake-out as the dullest form of police duty. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Garvinizia's national animal is the Cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Garvinizia is ranked 169,513^th in the world and 754^th in Europe for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 35,501.13 Standard Monetary Units.