The People's Republic of Gaskiya is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Cassandra Shakur with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, ban on automobiles, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.858 billion Gaskiyans 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 Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Atlanta. The average income tax rate is 77.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Gaskiyan economy, worth 192 trillion Gaskiyan Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 39,527 Gaskiyan Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens can be frequently spotted going about their business stark naked, weapons produced by newly nationalized armaments factories have been found to contain sawdust instead of gunpowder, incarcerated crime lords manage their empires from massage tables, and the tragedy of the commons is being tested nationwide but everyone says it's somebody else's problem. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gaskiya's national animal is the American Aligator, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gaskiya is ranked 240,075^th in the world and 7,818^th in Osiris for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -11.75 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.