The Free Land of Glossa is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and compulsory vegetarianism. The compassionate, devout population of 966 million Glossans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shroomston. The average income tax rate is 77.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Glossan economy, worth 70.7 trillion Bleps 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 Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is 73,144 Bleps, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sexually-starved male dinosaurs terrorise tourists during weekly breakouts from Mesozoic Park, citizens volunteer for tax audits to avoid the 80-page Practical Assessment Survey Tool On Religions, a faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park, and convicted crypto-miners are sent to the salt mines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Glossa's national animal is the Ant Eater, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Glossa is ranked 41,145^th in the world and 152^nd in Forest for Smartest Citizens, with 48.34 quips per hour.