The Technorepublic of Gentea is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Ludwig Esteves with a fair hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, national health service, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 14.421 billion Genteans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Treovia. The average income tax rate is 98.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Gentean economy, worth a remarkable 3,005 trillion common gentean credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 208,445 common gentean credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The real art was the AI friends we made along the way, the threat of economic apocalypse brings out the best in people, buildings are experiencing some new ten-ants, and schoolchildren have more trading cards than flash cards in their backpacks. Crime is totally unknown. Gentea's national animal is the cardinal bird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Gentea is ranked 10,117^th in the world and 31^st in The Leftist Assembly for Highest Average Incomes, with 208,445.03 Standard Monetary Units.