The United Socialist States of Greater Grangeria is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Secretary-General Thomas Granger with an even hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.7 billion Greater Grangerians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Londinium. The average income tax rate is 87.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Grangerian economy, worth 215 trillion Euros a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 127,016 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government's fruit business reeks of rotting produce and corruption, children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, glittering new sports stadiums adorn every city and town, and the nationalistic national anthem inspires citizens to literally spit at foreigners. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Greater Grangeria's national animal is the panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Greater Grangeria is ranked 11,053^rd in the world and 75^th in The Leftist Assembly for Lowest Crime Rates, with 99.23 law-abiding acts per hour.