The Republic of Gryfino is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 3.796 billion Gryfinoans 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 Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 69.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Gryfinoan economy, worth 81.4 trillion zloties a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 21,442 zloties, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Groups of government workers are declared protected tribes if they venture too deep into the Capitol, young soldiers are shocked to discover there are no 'safe spaces' on a battlefield, there's nothing more gay than bleeding for your nation, and primary candidates are replaced if they fail to compliment Leader's hair. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gryfino's national animal is the griffin, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Gryfino is ranked 124,167^th in the world and 2^nd in Xarakuz for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 905.7 on the Gilded Widget Scale.