The Christmas Winter Wonderland of Gine Caruttiva is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Father Gine with a fair hand, and renowned for its vat-grown people, soft-spoken computers, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.423 billion Gines 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Caruttiva. The average income tax rate is 96.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Ginian economy, worth 768 trillion Socials a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 173,671 Socials, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Search-and-rescue organisations are the biggest employer in the country, the government is lax about national security during the Christmas period (Gine Caruttiva has found 10 easter eggs), city budgets are spent entirely on supporting the town royalty, and the Violetist community celebrates bombshells being dropped on Gine Caruttiva. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gine Caruttiva's national animal is the worker bee, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Ginian Yodlism.

Gine Caruttiva is ranked 4,535^th in the world and 18^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Safest, scoring 131.31 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.