The People's Republic of Grossenmeer is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 637 million Grossenmeerians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Razussen. The average income tax rate is 44.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Grossenmeerian economy, worth 45.4 trillion bitcoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 71,278 bitcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park, penny whistles have been rebranded 'tin hornpipes', vital intelligence-gathering activities are often put on hold for Call of Honor tournaments, and people have become comfortably numb. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Grossenmeer's national animal is the penguin, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Grossenmeer is ranked 82,757^th in the world and 874^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,233.96 on the Gilded Widget Scale.