The Most Serene Republic of Gymnostan is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Prime Minister Archimedes D'Siracusa with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, prohibition of alcohol, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, humorless population of 32.321 billion Gymnostanis have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Godiva City. The average income tax rate is 90.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Gymnostani economy, worth a remarkable 2,495 trillion verduroes a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 77,210 verduroes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Homophobia is off the menu, the sanitised and dull music festivals of Gymnostan are famed for their reasonable volume levels, soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued, and urban graffiti is hand-calligraphed in perfectly kerned elegant fonts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gymnostan's national animal is the Gymnostani Mastiff, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Naturism.

Gymnostan is ranked 930^th in the world and 25^th in the South Pacific for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 16,087.34 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.