The Most Holy and Great Archduke of Bishop Gian is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by The Elder Knight with an even hand, and notable for its ban on automobiles, public floggings, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, devout population of 3.145 billion Bishop Gianians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ancient Rome. The average income tax rate is 32.6%.

The very strong Bishop Gianian economy, worth 247 trillion Diamond Pounds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 78,697 Diamond Pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.9 times as much as the poorest.

Rumor has it that The Elder Knight has won three lotteries in a row, thieves claim they're simply working for the tax agency, the government regularly reassures citizens that there are no monsters under their beds, and Ancient Rome's main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bishop Gian's national animal is the Unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Bishop Gian is ranked 99,743^rd in the world and 4^th in True Waskaria for Most Cultured, scoring 66 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.