The Technoratic Republic of Gallicelestia is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 639 million Gallicelestians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nuovo Faro. The average income tax rate is 79.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gallicelestian economy, worth 80.6 trillion Gallicelestian Transaction Units a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 126,086 Gallicelestian Transaction Units, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists, handling people's data is proving an immersive experience, and motorcycle riders are required to wear so much gear they've been nicknamed "Stay Pufts". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gallicelestia's national animal is the Giganotosaurus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gallicelestia is ranked 14,886^th in the world and 631^st in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 330.26 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.