The Grand Directorate of Graafheuvel is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Nanko Schuttert with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, keen interest in outer space, and digital currency. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 5.077 billion Graafvolkers are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zuiderdam. The average income tax rate is 63.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Graafvolker economy, worth 710 trillion Diamanten marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 139,874 Diamanten marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The education system is being cleansed of all corporate influence, turnstile jumpers grow up to be tax cheats, private pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are given away freely by the government, and every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Graafheuvel's national animal is the Noordelijke Yulitz, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Reformed Boreas Worship.

Graafheuvel is ranked 50,113^th in the world and 115^th in Starlight for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,953.53 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.