The United Republics of Gartueg is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Marsung-nq Beaoc with a fair hand, and notable for its ritual sacrifices, parental licensing program, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, democratic, devout population of 1.493 billion Gartuegians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tent. The average income tax rate is 67.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Gartuegian economy, worth 56.5 trillion Tarns 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, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Pizza Delivery, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. 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 37,863 Tarns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A good deed is rewarded with a thank you note attached to a deportation order, school guidance counselors recommend monastic vows as an alternative to higher education, all facts are created equal, and kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun". Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Gartueg's national animal is the Dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Gartueg is ranked 33,613^th in the world and 1^st in Claistrora for Least Corrupt Governments, with 94.01 percentage of bribes refused.