The Technocracy United Kingdom of Girania is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by John Lupinssen VII with a fair hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, ubiquitous missile silos, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 20.742 billion Giranians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Faenor. The average income tax rate is 50.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Giranian economy, worth a remarkable 8,898 trillion Gears a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 428,999 Gears, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

On graduation day the hats thrown in the air fly high enough to stun passing pigeons, college-level writing classes are taught by undergraduate editors of the school newspaper, business leaders commend the government for enacting an emissions reduction strategy that reduces no Giranian emissions at all, and glittering new sports stadiums adorn every city and town. Crime is relatively low. Girania's national animal is the Wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Alphanism.

Girania is ranked 3,066^th in the world and 1^st in Novo Brasil for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 7,289.07 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.