The Bright and Shiny Republic of Glittering Green is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by The Council of Green with a fair hand, and notable for its ban on automobiles, parental licensing program, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.615 billion Greens are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Glittaire. The average income tax rate is 95.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Green economy, worth 811 trillion Emeralds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 144,493 Emeralds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bowling teams spend more time looking at their phones than the pins, people have become comfortably numb, parents are always up to speed on the latest childcare techniques, and the traditional Violetist dish of stuffed sheep's head is served with an intense look of shock upon its face. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Glittering Green's national animal is the Squirrel, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Glittering Green is ranked 28,416^th in the world and 2^nd in The Far Left for Highest Average Incomes, with 144,493.75 Standard Monetary Units.