The United Socialist State of Gine Caruttiva is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Father Gine with a fair hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, smutty television, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.163 billion Gines are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Caruttiva. The average income tax rate is 94.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Ginian economy, worth 468 trillion Socials a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 147,991 Socials, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A policy of plausible deniability helps protect the government from athletic doping scandals, the nation's new Mylab space station is notorious for being the loneliest place above the planet, Father Gine panders to nontraditional families, and homophobia is off the menu. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gine Caruttiva's national animal is the worker bee, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Ginia Yodlism.

Gine Caruttiva is ranked 71,655^th in the world and 94^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Patriotic, with 19.59 flags saluted per person per day.