Republic of Gilead: The Handmaid's Tale

I've been referring to the Supreme Corp and the Repugnacon Party as the Gilead Gestapo. I was surprised by how many people did not know to what I was referring by the name Gilead. The following abstract is from the Handmaid's Tale fan page. See the link for much more detail.

"The Republic of Gilead, colloquially referred to as simply Gilead or elsewhere sometimes called, by its leadership, the 'Divine Republic,' is the totalitarian patriarchal theocracy that rules over most of the territory that belonged to the former continental United States in The Handmaid's Tale. The regime that governs it can be seen as the overall antagonist of the television adaptation."