The Federation of Gemenvolk is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Friedrich von Baden with an iron fist, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.738 billion Gemenvolkians 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 Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cantonus. The average income tax rate is 94.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Gemenvolkian economy, worth 269 trillion gelts 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 major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 154,970 gelts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Where there's a will there is usually a password manager, bris parties are all the rage, factories place endangered birds in their rafters in pursuit of government protections, and parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gemenvolk's national animal is the monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Cult of Reason.

Gemenvolk is ranked 15,190^th in the world and 11^th in KAISERREICH for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 1,402.85 on the Clooney Contribution Index.