The Draconity of Gelgisith is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its rum-swilling pirates, hatred of cheese, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, humorless population of 44.83 billion Gelgisith are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Social Policy. The income tax rate is 100.0%.

The all-consuming Gelgisith economy, worth a remarkable 6,949 trillion Floryns 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 Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism. Average income is an impressive 155,010 Floryns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Gelgisith novella fans become unusually flustered when thinking about Leader, Gelgisith City University is said to be the modern-day Tower of Babel, the word "sexagenarian" has taken on a whole new meaning, and lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you'. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Gelgisith's national animal is the Wyvern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gelgisith is ranked 332,824^th in the world and 10^th in Dragon for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -20.08 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.