The Republic of Gavina is a tiny, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 9 million Gavinans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 57.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The developing Gavinan economy, worth 248 billion euros a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 27,598 euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, people who stay late at the office often come home to find their own funeral being planned, and the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gavina's national animal is the gull, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Gavina is ranked 27,913^th in the world and 299^th in The Leftist Assembly for Least Corrupt Governments, with 94.09 percentage of bribes refused.