The L'État Resplendissant of Garbania is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Shevangar VIII Zurithalissaran with an even hand, and notable for its daily referendums, feral children, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 1.022 billion Garbanians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Olyan. The average income tax rate is 66.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Garbanian economy, worth 101 trillion Tzdals a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 99,122 Tzdals, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Only vaccinated citizens may have free healthcare, small shoes often wash up on the beach, blood stains the floors of the execution room and the hands of the state, and there's no representation without taxation. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Garbania's national animal is the Gothic Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Garbania is ranked 278,419^th in the world and 17^th in Gholgoth for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -12.25 on the Clooney Contribution Index.