The Build Tool of Gradle is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, parental licensing program, and public floggings. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 1.101 billion Gradleans, 1.049 billion of whom are zombies, are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 62.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Gradlean economy, worth a remarkable 1,159 trillion dobras a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 160,510 dobras, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 458,896 per year while the poor average 44,719, a ratio of 10.3 to 1.

Voting for pro-Bigtopian candidates is voluntary, starving citizens are offered nuclear pasta, saying 'Hi Guys' to a mixed gender group of people at work is a fireable offense, and trying to toast marshmallows in an electric fireplace just isn't the same. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gradle's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gradle is ranked 263,414^th in the world and 598^th in Aetherius for Nudest, with 56.5 cheeks per square mile.