The Empire of Gearcoly Reich is a huge, safe nation, notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, state-planned economy, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 226 million Gearcols are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 56.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Gearcoli economy, worth 12.6 trillion Gearcoly Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 55,893 Gearcoly Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Gearcoly Reich City Times is sold out, religious bigotry and a fear of outsiders have replaced religious studies in schools, the nation's infamous boot camp is more brutal than most battlefields, and oil rigs in winter are heated by contained oil slick fires. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gearcoly Reich's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Gearcoly Reich is ranked 205,907^th in the world and 4,877^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -2.5 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.