The Thousand Sons of Gudoc is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Magnus with an iron fist, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, avant-garde cinema, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 5.061 billion Gudocians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The relatively small, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Education, Law & Order, and Industry also on the agenda, while Social Policy receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Prospero. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 17.7%.

The powerhouse Gudocian economy, worth 433 trillion Gudors a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 85,624 Gudors, with the richest citizens earning 5.6 times as much as the poorest.

Children are terrified that the 'flying police monster' will come to take them away in the night, tombstones are ten feet high to accommodate the names of inhabitants, intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works, and the end of autumn is celebrated with a bonfire of designer bags. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gudoc's national animal is the Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Imperial Cult.

Gudoc is ranked 90,530^th in the world and 2^nd in Thee Imperium of Man for Highest Poor Incomes, with 33,706.7 Standard Monetary Units.