The Dominion of Gottamba is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its infamous sell-swords, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 739 million Gottambans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Environment, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 51.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Gottamban economy, worth 39.6 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Cheese Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Furniture Restoration, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 53,571 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens who leave the nation for work are instantly charged with treason, kids are exceptionally good at digging holes, the government is spending millions on alternative clean-burning fuels, and creating cardboard imitations of missiles is a new top-secret military project. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gottamba's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gottamba is ranked 30,130^th in the world and 2^nd in New Karnaria for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 4,651.56 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.