The Chess Player of Gio Farm 106 is a colossal, genial nation, remarkable for its public floggings, ubiquitous missile silos, and avant-garde cinema. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 8.337 billion Gio Farm 106ians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 53.3%.

The all-consuming Gio Farm 106ian economy, worth 933 trillion cards 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 large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. 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 an impressive 111,928 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding", studio executives abandon tragic stories of star-crossed lovers because "it's been done", legislators toe the party line lest the Sergeant-at-Arms decide to conduct "truncheon practice" on the backbench, and the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gio Farm 106's national animal is the farmer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gio Farm 106 is ranked 44,700^th in the world and 189^th in Giovanniland for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 162.63 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.