The People's Empire of Socialist Gelderland is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Czar William XV with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.665 billion Gelderlanders 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, although Law & Order, Administration, and Education are also considered important, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Novamagus. The average income tax rate is 94.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Gelderlands economy, worth 702 trillion Guilders 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 impressive 191,573 Guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The police double as repo men, flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists, war criminals are given full state funerals, and Czar William XV can't hear a thing when the unwashed masses throw rocks at the new state limousine. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Socialist Gelderland's national animal is the Dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Atheism.

Socialist Gelderland is ranked 15,315^th in the world and 10^th in Callista for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,378.24 on the Gilded Widget Scale.