The Free Land of Grusmar is a large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its rum-swilling pirates, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The democratic population of 184 million Gruses are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 43.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Grusish economy, worth 5.54 trillion Grusmarks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 30,129 Grusmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property, airplane passengers who purchase "basic economy" tickets are often assigned seats in the lavatory, and the armed forces are locked in an expensive and bloody war abroad to stamp out possible terrorists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Grusmar's national animal is the glass jelly, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Grusmar is ranked 101,481^st in the world and 11^th in Markion for Lowest Crime Rates, with 67.77 law-abiding acts per hour.