The Federation of Glaslen is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by President Berlepsch with a fair hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion. The democratic population of 6.194 billion Glaslenians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sturemburg. The average income tax rate is 20.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Glaslenian economy, worth 254 trillion Rautmarkes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Pizza Delivery, and Gambling. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 41,152 Rautmarkes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts, the banshee wail foretells skies of death, obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals, and nobody likes bad boys any more. Crime is relatively low. Glaslen's national animal is the Red Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Carpentism.

Glaslen is ranked 274,721^st in the world and 182^nd in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -20 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.