The People's Republic of Gerbil Republic is a large, safe nation, renowned for its enforced nudity, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 56 million Gerbil Republicians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 43.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Gerbil Republician economy, worth 1.54 trillion Tinydollars 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Gambling, Pizza Delivery, Arms Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 27,461 Tinydollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites, Gerbil Republic is notorious for its citizens' infidelity, the sound of office water cooler chatter has been replaced by the whirring of computer cooling fans, and the government is allowing greater autonomy for some regions in the hopes of quelling growing secessionist movements. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gerbil Republic's national animal is the Gerbil, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Gerbil Republic is ranked 256,928^th in the world and 5,774^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -38.08 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.