The Empire of Grid 32 is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its digital currency, soft-spoken computers, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 419 million Griddies 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, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cell 8. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.9%.

The strong Griddian economy, worth 36.4 trillion Times 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Uranium Mining. 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 86,933 Times, with the richest citizens earning 6.7 times as much as the poorest.

Home renovation shows are increasingly popular, the tawdry celebrity gossip section has moved to the front page of most newspapers, people regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed, and beaches are empty as the shark population multiplies exponentially. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grid 32's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Grid 32 is ranked 38,846^th in the world and 597^th in The East Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 55.65 kickbacks per hour.