The Haligonian Snow Leopards of Gauthama is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by King Ashok with an iron fist, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, parental licensing program, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 13.643 billion Gauthamen are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Law & Order, with Education, Administration, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kapilavastu. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 62.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Gauthaman economy, worth a remarkable 2,297 trillion tea leaves a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 168,412 tea leaves, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 667,990 per year while the poor average 28,673, a ratio of 23.3 to 1.

Goldfish bowls are three metres in diameter, a flying elephant and King Ashok share the same nickname, citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, and billion-tea leaf sentient AI killbots roll through the streets dispensing hot dogs and T-shirts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gauthama's national animal is the Snow Leopard, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Gauthama is ranked 13,674^th in the world and 1^st in The Himalayas for Most Corrupt Governments, with 128.83 kickbacks per hour.