The Socialist Republic of Grandocantorica is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Charleston Junior with a fair hand, and renowned for its soft-spoken computers, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.33 billion Grandrians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berengrad. The average income tax rate is 78.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Grandrian economy, worth 188 trillion Multi-Currency Units a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 141,772 Multi-Currency Units, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

"Idol-Worship for the Apathetic" workshops are cancelled when no-one bothers to show up, it's harder to qualify for IVF than for a good university, the Smalltopian embassy doubles as an electoral campaign headquarters, and classes are regularly interrupted by drunken children. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grandocantorica's national animal is the Golden Chicken, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Orthodox Christianity.

Grandocantorica is ranked 75,498^th in the world and 16^th in Bresima for Most Beautiful Environments, with 603.2 pounds of wildlife per square mile.