The Free Land of The Grostans is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by The Grostanster with an iron fist, and remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, infamous sell-swords, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.159 billion Grostansians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Administration, although Education, Industry, and Defense are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Grostans City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 72.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Grostansian economy, worth 298 trillion Groins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 138,429 Groins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 532,238 per year while the poor average 24,793, a ratio of 21.5 to 1.

Blueriver mercenaries routinely do the army's dirty work, the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations, game show contestants scramble to fish trash out of the South Dolphin Sea, and Harry Potter books are banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. The Grostans's national animal is the dolphin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is The Grostansity.

The Grostans is ranked 24,715^th in the world and 1^st in Colonia Apollonis for Largest Black Market, with 120 trillion Standard Monetary Units.