The Most Serene Republic of Gates-topia is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Justin Gates with an even hand, and notable for its parental licensing program, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 5.313 billion Gates-topians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gates-ville. The average income tax rate is 81.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Gates-topian economy, worth 389 trillion Hopes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 73,292 Hopes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

In distant lands the nation is known as a lovely place that was even better in the good old days, police conduct weekly raids looking for contraband cheeseburgers, flight attendants rip down curtains with revolutionary fervor, and protests are illegal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gates-topia's national animal is the Unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Self.

Gates-topia is ranked 13,076^th in the world and 2^nd in Gates Law 2022 for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 1,540.82 on the Clooney Contribution Index.