The Republic of The Gelatin Empire is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, infamous sell-swords, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 800 million Gelatin Empireans 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yoyleland. The average income tax rate is 52.2%.

The all-consuming Gelatin Empirean economy, worth 67.2 trillion Gelatins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 83,984 Gelatins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

Prisoners regularly escape detention posing as scarecrows, corporations claim the third ounce of any metal traded in a wicker-cone on the Sunday of a full moon as a charitable expense, parents giddily refuse to pay their toddlers' medical bills, and highly paid government contractors are found coughing up furballs in alleyways. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Gelatin Empire's national animal is the Gelatin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Gelatin Empire is ranked 18,509^th in the world and 30^th in The League for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 5,882.59 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.