The Democratic Socialist States of Greater Granskiye is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Chairman Bao Bedong with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, public floggings, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.56 billion Greater Granskiyeans 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 medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital-Subdivision 12. The average income tax rate is 58.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Greater Granskiyean economy, worth 228 trillion Euros 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 146,659 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Engineers preemptively order lawyers after every power cut, nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines, Greater Granskiyean Standard Vodka is the only drink that bars stock, and passive-aggressive congratulations cards inform mums-to-be that their pregnancy is their greatest achievement in life. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Greater Granskiye's national animal is the Gransk' Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secularism.

Greater Granskiye is ranked 36,407^th in the world and 394^th in 10000 Islands for Highest Food Quality, scoring 47.31 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.