The Royal Monarchy of Glowing Diamonds is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Queen Dweloe with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 12.875 billion Glowing Diamondsians 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 Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Catalyst City. The average income tax rate is 99.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Glowing Diamondsian economy, worth a remarkable 2,559 trillion boonbucks a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 198,759 boonbucks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay, arguments about toilet seats being left up or down get surprisingly heated, and signs at the border tell international drivers where they can put their cars. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Glowing Diamonds's national animal is the Turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Protestant Christianity.

Glowing Diamonds is ranked 304,189^th in the world and 10,384^th in Lazarus for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 15.33 on the Bus Surprisal Index.