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The Insular Area of Gutterlight Cove is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its frequent executions, ubiquitous missile silos, and avant-garde cinema. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 2.027 billion Gutterlight Coveans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 65.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Gutterlight Covean economy, worth 175 trillion Island Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 86,680 Island Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 5.5 times as much as the poorest.

It's been a banner year for local vexillology, children who refuse to share their crayons are arrested, it is cheaper to die in the wilderness than to survive, and cane fights are a common sight in nursing homes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gutterlight Cove's national animal is the Island Doggo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gutterlight Cove is ranked 72,310^th in the world and 4^th in Lights for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 133.12 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.