The Uncelebrated Bravery of Background Gryffindor is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its infamous sell-swords, frequent executions, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 12.438 billion Background Gryffindorians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Background Gryffindorian economy, worth a remarkable 1,151 trillion Galleons a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Gambling, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 92,553 Galleons, with the richest citizens earning 8.8 times as much as the poorest.

Exterminators swarm Background Gryffindorian homes, kids looking for shark teeth have become ancient history, major cities run on potato batteries, and commercials are consistently recorded in soft white rooms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Background Gryffindor's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Background Gryffindor is ranked 265,974^th in the world and 1^st in Gryffindor for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6.9 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.