The People's Republic of Greater Gilbertberg is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Chancellor Peebleshire with an even hand, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, avant-garde cinema, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 1.389 billion Gilbertbergians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ludenberg. The average income tax rate is 73.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Greater Gilbertbergian economy, worth 46.5 trillion Guilders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 33,459 Guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation grinds to a halt on the anniversary of every marginally noteworthy event, home renovation projects take decades to complete, people boast about their low income on their dating profiles, and murderers facing life in prison listen to long sermons on positive thinking. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Greater Gilbertberg's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is None.

Greater Gilbertberg is ranked 24,533^rd in the world and 458^th in The Communist Bloc for Healthiest Citizens, with 9.3 bananas ingested per day.