The Imperial Federation of Lower Gara is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Robert XXXIV Kannnorn Vän-Räcksenbÿrg with an iron fist, and renowned for its parental licensing program, frequent executions, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 21.316 billion Imperials 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order and Education also on the agenda, while Social Policy and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mjrthkell. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Imperial economy, worth a remarkable 5,281 trillion Yrvors 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 a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Trout Farming. 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 an amazing 247,762 Yrvors, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 732,341 per year while the poor average 65,878, a ratio of 11.1 to 1.

It's not just poseurs who wear oversized sound-cancelling headphones as they walk the city streets, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, motorists' locations are constantly tracked by intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and talkative students are escorted from schools in second-hand prison buses. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lower Gara's national animal is the Horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ÿrdferanism.

Lower Gara is ranked 2,648^th in the world and 1^st in Claistrora for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 98.14 Effective Tax Rate.