The Empire of Giovanni is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, enslaved workforce, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 2.986 billion Giovannians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Giovannia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 22.4%.

The powerhouse Giovannian economy, worth 164 trillion Golden Orbs a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 55,091 Golden Orbs, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 265,630 per year while the poor average 6,646, a ratio of 40.0 to 1.

An aboriginal talking stick is used for leaders' debates at election time, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, boats straying just metres away from the shore will raise the ire of the Coast Guard, and frightened witnesses and seriously ill jurors wear the same handcuffs as the defendant. Crime is moderate. Giovanni's national animal is the Lavender Macaw, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Giovanni is ranked 267,078^th in the world and 1^st in Giovanni for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -8.94 on the Clooney Contribution Index.