The Grand Duchy of Glendwith is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Prime Minister Juliette Anne Windhaven with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 3.831 billion Gwiths are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The medium-sized, outspoken government prioritizes Administration, with Industry, Law & Order, and Education also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stromwich. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 34.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Gwith economy, worth 441 trillion Gwith ducats a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 115,115 Gwith ducats, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 434,177 per year while the poor average 21,262, a ratio of 20.4 to 1.

Five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars, sex changes are routinely performed at Glendwith's hospitals, travel bureaus double as recruiting centers for national intelligence agencies, and the government has started a campaign to crack down on road rage and encourage alternate means of commuting. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Glendwith's national animal is the killer whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Protestantism.

Glendwith is ranked 13,516^th in the world and 521^st in The North Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 26.59 average smiles per day.