The Empire of Grid 32 is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 445 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 69.3%.

The strong Griddian economy, worth 39.5 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 88,812 Times, with the richest citizens earning 5.9 times as much as the poorest.

Reddish-brown is the new black, the government is suspected of mass disappearing dissidents both at home and abroad, the government puts forth the claim that harming young girls is wrong, and the nation's faithful often say there is a higher power watching over them. 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 231,415^th in the world and 2,533^rd in The East Pacific for Largest Populations, with 445 million capita.