The Tenacious Turtle of Gio Farm 36 is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, parental licensing program, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 9.112 billion Gio Farm 36ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 58.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Gio Farm 36ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,382 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 151,735 cards, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 585,641 per year while the poor average 27,008, a ratio of 21.7 to 1.

Cars are banned, it is popularly believed that "cheese every day keeps disaster away", agricultural employees work for peanuts, and all screens are equal but some are more equal than others. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gio Farm 36's national animal is the farmer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gio Farm 36 is ranked 22,762^nd in the world and 127^th in Giovanniland for Most Patriotic, with 44.5 flags saluted per person per day.