The Federal Republic of Grande Oeste is a large, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, frequent executions, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, cynical population of 125 million Colonos are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The relatively small, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 23.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Colono economy, worth 8.61 trillion pinhaos a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 68,877 pinhaos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ancestry test results arrive bundled with patent applications, Colono novella fans become unusually flustered when thinking about Leader, daisy chain gangs plant flowers and pick up litter, and corporate lawyers are switching careers to the more lucrative field of green politics. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grande Oeste's national animal is the pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Grande Oeste is ranked 187,691^st in the world and 1,900^th in the Pacific for Fattest Citizens, with 9.55 Obesity Rate.