The Chess Player of Gio Farm 102 is a colossal, genial nation, renowned for its enslaved workforce, keen interest in outer space, and smutty television. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.208 billion Gio Farm 102ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 66.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Gio Farm 102ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,052 trillion cards 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 an impressive 128,188 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

Schoolchildren are divided over Leader's "Why Tigers are Cooler than Lions" speech, aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted, cheese lovers have a case of the bleus, and confused drunks wake up to irate drill sergeants whipping them into shape. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gio Farm 102's national animal is the farmer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gio Farm 102 is ranked 37,555^th in the world and 110^th in Giovanniland for Lowest Crime Rates, with 78.74 law-abiding acts per hour.