The Kingdom of Glorkinstein is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies, state-planned economy, and avant-garde cinema. The compassionate, democratic population of 766 million Glorkinsteinians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Talvez. The average income tax rate is 66.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Glorkinsteinian economy, worth 31.1 trillion pennies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Trout Farming, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 40,536 pennies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Studio executives abandon tragic stories of star-crossed lovers because "it's been done", the police have been known to wiretap confessional boxes, truncheon-mounted cameras record the beating of criminals in dynamic HD detail, and police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Glorkinstein's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Glorkinstein is ranked 138,647^th in the world and 951^st in The North Pacific for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring zero on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.