The Kingdom of Glorkinstein is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, anti-smoking policies, and parental licensing program. The compassionate population of 600 million Glorkinsteinians 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 Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Talvez. The average income tax rate is 54.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Glorkinsteinian economy, worth 16.3 trillion pennies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. Average income is 27,244 pennies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Reflex hammers and sickle cell research are uniform comrades, transgender and agender are on the education agenda, party affiliation is just as irrelevant as campaign promises, and an underground movement of cigarette smokers has sprung up in response to a government ban. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Glorkinstein's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Glorkinstein is ranked 298,752^nd in the world and 4,121^st in The North Pacific for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 1,136.11 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.