The People's Empire of Giustinia is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, ubiquitous missile silos, and triple-decker prams. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 559 million Giustinians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ciancia. The average income tax rate is 27.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Giustinian economy, worth 61.8 trillion Sequins 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 slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 110,592 Sequins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Crocodile roadkill is smeared across the asphalt of the new Formula One track, the relatives of suicide victims tend to be angry rather than sad, sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors, and roadside walls are being built and mother nature is paying for it. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Giustinia's national animal is the goose, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Giustinia is ranked 60,682^nd in the world and 771^st in the South Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 74.37 on the Human Development Index.