The Dominion of Gottamba is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 808 million Gottambans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 54.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Gottamban economy, worth 52.7 trillion pounds 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Book Publishing. 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 65,224 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's black ops are starting to get on people's nerves, Gottamba's heavy congestion charges are the bane of motorists' lives, young people never forget their first roommate — no matter how much counselling they have, and thorough preparation of street foods defeats the purpose of really fast food. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gottamba's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gottamba is ranked 41,429^th in the world and 6^th in New Karnaria for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,237.75 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.