The Dictatorship of Geckos is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Barry the Berry lover with an iron fist, and notable for its lack of airports, free-roaming dinosaurs, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.637 billion Geckosians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Industry, and Education also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Environment are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berry bottom. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Geckosian economy, worth a remarkable 2,193 trillion gecko bucks a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an amazing 287,172 gecko bucks, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,371,829 per year while the poor average 7,143, a ratio of 332 to 1.

University graduates and new home-owners toil in labour camps to work off their debts, corrupt industrial practices are spreading like a plague, Ollie the Oiled Seal welcomes throngs of tourists to the newly opened Oil Oasis Water Park, and preservative-laden Geckosian cheeses will be as edible when archaeologists dig them up next millennium. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Geckos's national animal is the gecko, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is geckoism.

Geckos is ranked 78,677^th in the world and 3^rd in Swagnations for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 99.76 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.