The Christian States of Gideon is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Archbishop Gabriel VII with an even hand, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, triple-decker prams, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 5.87 billion Gidonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jerubbaal. The average income tax rate is 81.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Gideonian economy, worth 447 trillion Shekels a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 76,268 Shekels, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens have to dodge their neighbors' drones while getting the morning paper, body doubles and armed bodyguards escort witnesses to and from courtrooms, the government frequently panders to parents with boutique tax credits, and you can't put down the nation's attitude to pet health. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gideon's national animal is the Lamb, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Gideon is ranked 174,030^th in the world and 63^rd in Union of Christian Nations for Most Conservative, scoring 53.25 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.