The Democratic Socialist States of Greater Granskiye is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Chairman Bao Bedong with an iron fist, and notable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.528 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 58.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Greater Granskiyean economy, worth 223 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 broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 146,392 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Party has more splits than a yo-yo dieter's trousers, The Pipe Bomb Makers' Pop-Up Book can be found in preschool libraries, neighbouring countries pay to situate their nuclear power plants in Greater Granskiye, and it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma. 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 164,507^th in the world and 443^rd in 10000 Islands for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 214.17 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.