The State of Ghedeland is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Supreme Leader Taeko Van Pels with an iron fist, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, vat-grown people, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, cynical, cheerful population of 12.78 billion Ghedelandais are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kantora. The average income tax rate is 90.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Ghedelandian economy, worth a remarkable 4,726 trillion Samedi Francs a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 369,838 Samedi Francs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

Teenagers often ask adults to buy them Maxtopian Grass from government-run recreational drug stores, third world countries are rich in "I Love Kantora" t-shirts, sociologists ponder how baby-napped ethnic minority 'runaways' could have gone so bad so soon, and Kantora's main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Ghedeland's national animal is the Black Faced Seagull, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Voodoo.

Ghedeland is ranked 326,158^th in the world and 325^th in Commonwealth of Liberty for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring -17.89 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.