The Apolytonian Surfdom of Grant Park - Harrow is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Jimmie with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, sprawling nuclear power plants, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 38.178 billion Grant Park - Harrowi'ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rockwood. The average income tax rate is 76.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Grant Park - Harrowi'ian economy, worth a remarkable 3,410 trillion zukens 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Information Technology and Woodchip Exports. 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 89,332 zukens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Helium balloons lift the nation's spacecraft towards the heavens, the government's economic policy can be summed up as "Abort, Retry, Fail?", the government maintains that belief brings greater security than money or a roof, and Grant Park - Harrowi'ians are free from pain - but the side effects include loss of individual thought and freedom. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grant Park - Harrow's national animal is the pirate, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is High Church.

Grant Park - Harrow is ranked 296,330^th in the world and 3^rd in Manitoba for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8.45 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.