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The Republic of New Gilbert is a large, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, zero percent divorce rate, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 110 million Gilbertites 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 relatively small, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.2%.

The very strong Gilbertian economy, worth 7.79 trillion Norton's pounds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 70,844 Norton's pounds, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 322,414 per year while the poor average 9,516, a ratio of 33.9 to 1.

Drug distribution is tightly controlled by the government, suspicious locals close their doors leaving tourists to suffer the elements by themselves, death is nobody's business, and every computer glitch triggers an immediate counter-espionage response. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Gilbert's national animal is the squirrel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

New Gilbert is ranked 120,880^th in the world and 100^th in Britannia for Most Cultured, scoring 65 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.