The Bi-pin Lamp Standard of G9 is a titanic, efficient nation, notable for its infamous sell-swords, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 18.968 billion G9ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 78.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient G9ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,754 trillion Lumens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 145,200 Lumens, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

The urban poor thumbs down the new hitchhiking ban, parents are relieved they no longer need to help with their kids' algebra homework, G9 Barrier Island residents anxiously await their 'Bridge to Somewhere', and the question "please would you...?" is usually laden with passive aggression. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. G9's national animal is the Electron, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

G9 is ranked 19,422^nd in the world and 1^st in the Isles for Most Corrupt Governments, with 117.9 kickbacks per hour.