The Palace of Gbadolite is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Mobut Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 29.197 billion Gbadoliteans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government is dominated by the Department of Defense, with Spirituality, Industry, and Education also on the agenda, while Welfare and Social Policy are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gbadolite. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Gbadolitean economy, worth a remarkable 2,592 trillion Zaires a year, is highly specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Gambling and Tourism. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 88,779 Zaires, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 511,572 per year while the poor average 7,376, a ratio of 69.4 to 1.

Oracles predict landslide victories for Mobut Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga for the next 50 years, the navy is chrome-plating its battleships to prevent rust, the nightly news reports prosaically on the government blindly throwing money at despotic kidnappers, and computers are widely considered to be the "devil magic of heathens". Crime is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Gbadolite's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gbadolite is ranked 103,148^th in the world and 2^nd in Heaven for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 2,824.25 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.