The Federation of Gallifraey is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its public floggings, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working population of 428 million Gallifraeyans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kasterborous. The average income tax rate is 24.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Gallifraeyian economy, worth 18.5 trillion Pandaks a year, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 43,271 Pandaks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Extraordinary tribunals try accused financial criminals, the state believes that nature-oriented summer camps will somehow solve youth crime, the nation solves other countries' human rights problems with a generous dose of violence, and country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized. Crime is totally unknown. Gallifraey's national animal is the Yaddlefish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Gallifraey is ranked 98,147^th in the world and 818^th in Europe for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50.5 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.