The Empire of Gustavovich is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Great Leader Emperor Gustav Gustavovich with an iron fist, and renowned for its state-planned economy, enslaved workforce, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.749 billion Gustavovich Peoples are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Education also on the agenda, while Social Policy receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gustavopol. The average income tax rate is 91.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gustavovichian economy, worth 664 trillion præpols 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 an impressive 177,126 præpols, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

The New Gustavovichian Thesaurus lists "love" and "oppress" as synonyms, main battle tanks stalk the woods of Gustavovich in search of Black Jaguars, it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven, and soldiers have a preference for fire-and-forget payloads. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gustavovich's national animal is the Black Jaguar, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Gustavovichian Orthodox Church.

Gustavovich is ranked 33,011^th in the world and 11^th in Audinesca for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 205.72 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.