The Federation of Gonovae is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Free Gonovean Council with an even hand, and notable for its compulsory military service, infamous sell-swords, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 3.472 billion Gonovaeans 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 medium-sized, corrupt government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Administration, Industry, and Education are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Avigonville. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 78.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Gonovaean economy, worth 782 trillion vaenens a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 225,347 vaenens, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 851,738 per year while the poor average 41,481, a ratio of 20.5 to 1.

Ads no longer feature soldiers becoming green super soldiers by drinking Eckie-Cola, an opal a day keeps the negative thoughts at bay, state-sanctioned torture is okay so long as there's no icky blood, and programmers often reinvent the wheel. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Gonovae's national animal is the Aigle de drapeau, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Gonovae is ranked 74,313^th in the world and 1^st in Mappy nerds for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 3,922.02 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.