The Republic of Gallicelestia is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 512 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 76.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Gallicelestian economy, worth 60.2 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, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 117,673 Gallicelestian Transaction Units, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The army's use of chemical weapons leaves a bad taste in the mouth, the nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks, tourists outnumber citizens two to one, and there's a bright dawn ahead for Gallicelestia. 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 27,778^th in the world and 1,064^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 83 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.