The Socialist People's Democracy of Golanchia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Chairman Davit Purplinski with an iron fist, and notable for its state-planned economy, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 26.298 billion Golanchans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Golanchograd. The average income tax rate is 99.4%.

The enormous but underdeveloped Golanchian economy, worth a remarkable 5,834 trillion Purroes 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. 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 an amazing 221,875 Purroes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas, auditors are gutting every governmental department, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, and money is being desperately pumped into the ruined economy. Crime is totally unknown. Golanchia's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Golanchia is ranked 749^th in the world and 1^st in North Korea for Most Corrupt Governments, with 541.49 kickbacks per hour.