The Republic of Gherweb1 is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 553 million Gherwebis 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, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 70.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Gherweb1ian economy, worth 22.3 trillion Zends a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Cheese Exports, and Tourism. Average income is 40,372 Zends, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat, where there's smoke there's the Gherweb1ian Forestry Department, hordes of unemployed lumberjacks have resorted to cutting down utility poles to satisfy their cravings, and psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Leader to meetings with foreign heads of state. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gherweb1's national animal is the Bat, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Gherweb1 is ranked 93,633^rd in the world and 1,937^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 89.15 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.