The Democratic Republic of Hidden Gem is a huge, safe nation, ruled by MR GEM with an even hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed population of 984 million Hidden Gemians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kanairo. The average income tax rate is 34.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Hidden Gemian economy, worth 66.4 trillion Bitkoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 67,509 Bitkoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's diplomats are all talk and no action, the nation's spies are always on break time, the navy is hoping to hear the enemy shout "you sank my battleship!", and mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hidden Gem's national animal is the lion.

Hidden Gem is ranked 126,530^th in the world and 44^th in Greater Dienstad for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 920.2 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.