The Confederated Communes of Guthrie is a massive, safe nation, ruled by The Guthrian General Assembly with a fair hand, and renowned for its smutty television, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.492 billion Guthrians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arlo City. The average income tax rate is 92.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Guthriean economy, worth 222 trillion Isnotas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 149,055 Isnotas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Party affiliation is just as irrelevant as campaign promises, G-SPAN viewership drops as MPs act their age, power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky, and modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes. Crime is totally unknown. Guthrie's national animal is the Woody Guthrie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Guthrie is ranked 8,571^st in the world and 12^th in Anarchy for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,746.67 pounds of wildlife per square mile.