The United Socialist States of Glorious Existence is a gargantuan, genial nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The devout population of 24.6 billion Glorious Existenceans enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 93.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Glorious Existencean economy, worth a remarkable 2,195 trillion Drudges a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 89,250 Drudges, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Glorious Existence City Film Festival recently voted 'Glorious Existencean Getting Hit By Football' as best film, in a fit of passion Leader has shredded thirty years' worth of petitions, depression sinks in after each election when voters realize they are stuck with these people for years, and Leader has decreed that one must think of cheese upon reading the word mouse (Glorious Existence has found 1 easter egg). Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Glorious Existence's national animal is the Leech, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Glorious Existence is ranked 40,326^th in the world and 395^th in the West Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,657.7 on the Gilded Widget Scale.