The Sultanate of Gastarsagle is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its state-planned economy. The hard-nosed population of 467 million Gastarsagliuees are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 25.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Gastarsagli economy, worth 19.1 trillion Rags 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 slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Gambling, Cheese Exports, and Information Technology. 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 40,956 Rags, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gastarsagle's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gastarsagle is ranked 80,605^th in the world and 2^nd in Cracker Barolo for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 2,873.04 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.