The Commander of Graves is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 1.94 billion Gravesians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gravia. The average income tax rate is 54.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Gravesian economy, worth 51.6 trillion Graves a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Retail, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 26,604 Graves, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Brains have been removed from lists of best brain foods, lobbyists are trying to convince government to recategorize most natural disasters as "non-critical naturogenic inconveniences", crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing, and elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Graves's national animal is the Wabbit.

Graves is ranked 91,047^th in the world and 81^st in Talonia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 67.04 law-abiding acts per hour.