The Democratic Republic of South Gambier is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its anti-smoking policies, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 960 million South Gambierians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mangareva City. The average income tax rate is 90.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming South Gambierian economy, worth 91.2 trillion Kalas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 94,983 Kalas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Police wait behind troop deployments in order to shoot deserters, maps of the enemy's positions are often covered in blood, the words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence, and it's not only teenagers who mess around with fake IDs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. South Gambier's national animal is the Sea Turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

South Gambier is ranked 31,862^nd in the world and 932^nd in The East Pacific for Smartest Citizens, with 47.11 quips per hour.