The Free Land of Glossa is a very large, safe nation, notable for its frequent executions, avant-garde cinema, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, devout population of 485 million Glossans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

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 Shroomston. The average income tax rate is 67.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Glossan economy, worth 28.0 trillion Bleps 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 Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is 57,797 Bleps, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Edutainment video games are taking Glossa's students to the next level, some are born loving old plays and some have old plays thrust upon them, fireworks and other big bangs are forbidden during the newest public holiday, and the working classes live and die on the fields of the farming communes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Glossa's national animal is the Ant Eater, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Glossa is ranked 75,550^th in the world and 173^rd in Forest for Largest Governments, scoring 19.21 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.