The Dictatorship of Gearing is a mammoth, cultured nation, notable for its avant-garde cinema and zero percent divorce rate. The quiet, industrious population of 5.122 billion Gearingians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 16.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Gearingian economy, worth 249 trillion Delta Eagles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 48,653 Delta Eagles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

School uniforms are compulsory, Scoutmasters debate whether luxury log cabins defeat the purpose of camping, cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry, and cold medicines curiously become cheaper when government officials sneeze. Crime is well under control. Gearing's national animal is the Kitsune.

Gearing is ranked 55,182^nd in the world and 2^nd in American Navy for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 4,494.85 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.