The United Socialist States of Greater Grangeria is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Secretary-General Thomas Granger with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.831 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Londinium. The average income tax rate is 89.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Grangerian economy, worth 230 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 125,790 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Good-looking soldier boys have celebrity status amongst the nation's homosexuals, the seventh son of a seventh son is fated to be a millionaire, a firework a day does not in fact keep the doctor away, and the nation's navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas. 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 9,095^th in the world and 100^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 56.1 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.