The Gargantua and Pantagruel of Francois Rabelais is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Lollard with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, feral children, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless, devout population of 25.513 billion Francois Rabelaisians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The relatively small, corrupt, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Poitou. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 22.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Francois Rabelaisian economy, worth a remarkable 5,768 trillion Pantagruels a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 226,106 Pantagruels, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 676,296 per year while the poor average 59,120, a ratio of 11.4 to 1.

Paper and ink publications are subsidised by the government to keep them in the black, all recreational drugs are legal, all new "spies" are fifteen-year-old acne-ridden kids on computers, and UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Francois Rabelais's national animal is the Gargantua, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Agnostic Pantheism.

Francois Rabelais is ranked 293,153^rd in the world and 800^th in NationStates for Lowest Crime Rates, with 3.92 law-abiding acts per hour.