The Anti-Zombie Defense Forces of Grangewood Grove is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by the Grove Council with an iron fist, and notable for its national health service, ban on automobiles, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 17.383 billion Survivors are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Town Hall. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Survivor economy, worth a remarkable 2,977 trillion Scavenged Goods a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 171,292 Scavenged Goods, with the richest citizens earning 8.4 times as much as the poorest.

Job satisfaction is a luxury many Survivors can't afford, virtual assistants are seen with increasing suspicion every time they get an upgrade, truancy is as easy as clicking a camera icon, and corporations claim the third ounce of any metal traded in a wicker-cone on the Sunday of a full moon as a charitable expense. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grangewood Grove's national animal is the Zombie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Zombie Killing.

Grangewood Grove is ranked 23,666^th in the world and 1^st in After the Fall for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,518.87 on the Gilded Widget Scale.