The Allied States of Gotham st is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-working population of 293 million Gotham stians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Administration, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.7%.

The very strong Gotham stian economy, worth 19.7 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Gambling. Average income is 67,160 dollars, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 372,324 per year while the poor average 6,089, a ratio of 61.1 to 1.

Politicians tend to jump ship to whichever party is currently leading in the polls, gigantic new prisons are springing up all over the nation, the dessert 'Death by Chocolate' isn't the most lethal dish on the menu, and the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass". Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Gotham st's national animal is the wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Gotham st is ranked 251,702^nd in the world and 5,200^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 52.19 law-abiding acts per hour.