The Splashing Sea of Gio Farm 23 is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, keen interest in outer space, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.056 billion Gio Farm 23ians 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 80.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gio Farm 23ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,275 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 140,854 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Virtual assistants are seen with increasing suspicion every time they get an upgrade, drunk drivers are sent to rehabilitation paid for by the government, television characters who ask how someone's doing are charged with harassment, and the Gio Farm 23 City Prison Revue puts on a better stage show than anything in the Theatre District. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gio Farm 23's national animal is the farmer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Gio Farm 23 is ranked 195,865^th in the world and 324^th in Giovanniland for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 216.48 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.