The Most Serene Republic of Galano is a huge, genial nation, notable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, cynical population of 682 million Galanoans 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 44.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Galanoan economy, worth 23.0 trillion Dollors a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Cheese Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 33,741 Dollors, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", children raised in multi-faith households claim the other deity would let them stay up later, a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, and the nationalistic national anthem inspires citizens to literally spit at foreigners. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Galano's national animal is the Sea Cucumber, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Galano is ranked 27,334^th in the world and 688^th in the South Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 19.85 average smiles per day.