The Empire of Gundalia is a massive, orderly nation, notable for its compulsory vegetarianism, anti-smoking policies, and labour-free parental leave. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.978 billion Gundalians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vestal. The average income tax rate is 74.0%.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Gundalian economy, worth 98.3 trillion Kroles 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. 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 49,689 Kroles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Arms manufacturing has been put at an arm's length, sly spies try to rely on national allies so that they don't die, maps of the enemy's positions are often covered in blood, and it's not only teenagers who mess around with fake IDs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gundalia's national animal is the Gryphon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gundalia is ranked 66,360^th in the world and 32^nd in Fallen Nations for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 2,672.45 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.