The Ancient Kingdom of Gustaven is a titanic, efficient nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, rampant corporate plagiarism, and fear of technology. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 14.045 billion Gustavenians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Habaara. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 16.8%.

The powerhouse Gustavenian economy, worth 902 trillion gudas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 64,266 gudas, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 218,086 per year while the poor average 13,976, a ratio of 15.6 to 1.

Leader's latest speech included a bizarre reference to MaxWow incontinence pads being 50% more absorbent than the next leading brand, lines of trenches demarcate the nation's borders, Leader signs the laws but abides by none of them, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Gustaven's national animal is the Crow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Gustaven is ranked 82,242^nd in the world and 9^th in United Alliances for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,828.54 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.