The Holy Empire of Galithea is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, suspicion of poets, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.447 billion Galitheans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sanctethia. The average income tax rate is 91.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Galithean economy, worth 142 trillion Galithean francs a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Furniture Restoration industry. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 41,333 Galithean francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence', political loyalty is enforced by way of chemical addiction, the nation's green cities are indeed concrete jungles, and funding for education has been redirected into the military. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Galithea's national animal is the dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Galithea is ranked 310,993^rd in the world and 711^th in Concord for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 40.53 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.