The Republic of Big Gav is a large, orderly nation, notable for its frequent executions, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 118 million Big Gavians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 79.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Big Gavian economy, worth 1.34 trillion schlatt's victims a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Soda Sales, and Tourism. Average income is 11,348 schlatt's victims, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Corrective labour camps either end political dissent or kill the dissenters, it is said that the captain goes down with the ship but ecological protection goes up, pedants defending Leader observe that psychopaths and sociopaths aren't exactly the same thing, and the nation has cemented its own architectural style. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Big Gav's national animal is the boykisser, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Big Gav is ranked 242,691^st in the world and 318^th in Christians for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 21.57 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.