The Federation of Gravespire is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Leader Everdusk with an iron fist, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, frequent executions, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.065 billion Gravespireans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Iron Keep. The average income tax rate is 96.9%.

The thriving Gravespirean economy, worth 910 trillion Rhines a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Information Technology industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 112,929 Rhines, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, explosive diarrhoea is not just a colorful phrase, Gravespireans incessantly needle their doctors for relief, and homophobia is off the menu. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gravespire's national animal is the Dreadclaw Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gravespire is ranked 1,514^th in the world and 2^nd in The Order of the Grey Wardens for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 4,591.13 on the Clooney Contribution Index.