The Green Otter's State of Garbelia is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Lutra Otto with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.101 billion Garbeli are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Garvida. The average income tax rate is 92.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Garbelery economy, worth 107 trillion CryptoGarbels a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming. Average income is 97,981 CryptoGarbels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prudishness is on the way out, panicking criminals no longer flush contraband down the toilet, lip-readers are often left perplexed by political rallies, and children are disappointed to learn that cavemen never had a yabba-dabba-doo time riding dinosaurs to work. Crime is totally unknown. Garbelia's national animal is the Otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Lutrianism.

Garbelia is ranked 240,415^th in the world and 391^st in Forest for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -19.24 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.