The Republic of Gatchatopia is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its deadly medical pandemics, rampant corporate plagiarism, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.002 billion Gatchatopians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is primarily concerned with Administration, although Industry and Healthcare are also considered important, while Education and Law & Order are ignored. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Gatchatopian economy, worth a remarkable 2,111 trillion currencies a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 263,892 currencies, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,450,648 per year while the poor average 2,643, a ratio of 927 to 1.

News editors who eschew the state-approved superlatives for describing Leader tend to disappear, bilingual Gatchatopians are viewed with suspicion, sofas are perpetually on sales that Must End Soon, and biology and religious education classes have recently been merged. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Gatchatopia's national animal is the animal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Gatchatopia is ranked 87,182^nd in the world and 40^th in Vickenian experiment incubator for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 3,192.66 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.