The Dwarf Planet of Gonggong is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Hasira Lactiflora Paeonia with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 7.863 billion Gongs 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Utaka Angarika and Saint Chamel. The average income tax rate is 52.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Gong economy, worth 214 trillion Bartering Trades a year, is quite specialized and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Soda Sales, and Gambling. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 27,302 Bartering Trades, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Corrupt paupers spend taxpayer Bartering Trades on liquor and tobacco, garishly-decorated government buildings are being hailed as the height of 'religious nouveau', people with political aspirations study how to make balloon animals, and there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Gonggong's national animal is the all life, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Gonggong.

Gonggong is ranked 647^th in the world and 6^th in 10000 Islands for Most Primitive, scoring 302.91 on the Scary Big Number Scale.