The Republic of Gabbelvent is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, sprawling nuclear power plants, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 1.369 billion Gabbelventians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small government is primarily concerned with Education, with Healthcare, Industry, and Public Transport also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Defense aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.5%.

The all-consuming Gabbelventian economy, worth 131 trillion florins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 96,333 florins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 379,844 per year while the poor average 16,561, a ratio of 22.9 to 1.

The country is littered with broken homes, 50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool, urban high-volume mailers now receive their mail via chauffeur-driven limousines, and meat is a luxury afforded only to the wealthy. Crime is totally unknown. Gabbelvent's national animal is the bison, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Gabbelvent is ranked 185,743^rd in the world and 8,075^th in Balder for Most Corrupt Governments, with 2.27 kickbacks per hour.