The Lasagna Royal Empire of Garfield NP3 is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by You and Me with an iron fist, and remarkable for its parental licensing program, ubiquitous missile silos, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5.231 billion Garfieldians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Not so Holy Land. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 43.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Garfieldian economy, worth 517 trillion Lasagnas a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 98,992 Lasagnas, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 516,584 per year while the poor average 10,211, a ratio of 50.6 to 1.

The Small Council has more than a little influence, pieces of iron pyrite are believed to be worth their weight in gold, voters who forget their name are given a hint, and every fourth child is born with flippers instead of hands. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Garfield NP3's national animal is the Garfield, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Atheism.

Garfield NP3 is ranked 20,582^nd in the world and 2^nd in Barbaria for Largest Black Market, with 157 trillion Standard Monetary Units.