The Confederate technocracy of Great United Columbia is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Empress Monika Habsburg with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 4.321 billion Columbions 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, corrupt government prioritizes Defense, although Education, Industry, and Administration are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Celeste mountain. The average income tax rate is 70.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Columbion economy, worth 810 trillion Natridiniums a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 187,670 Natridiniums, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Mandatory updates on software drivers often bring life to a halt, camo-patterned plush comfort blankets are standard issue for commandos, politicians can't accept birthday presents from their own children, and psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Empress Monika Habsburg to meetings with foreign heads of state. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Great United Columbia's national animal is the Whale, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Great United Columbia is ranked 26,579^th in the world and 16^th in Arctica for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,102.77 on the Gilded Widget Scale.