The Empire of Grangale is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Emperor Julii zi Grangalia XIII with an iron fist, and renowned for its parental licensing program, fear of technology, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 35.205 billion Grangaleans are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Directia. The average income tax rate is 87.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Grangalean economy, worth a remarkable 4,766 trillion Denariis a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Gambling. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 135,378 Denariis, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's a bright dawn ahead for Grangale, the ban on cars has been repealed, the military is blowing up any threat to employment within the nation, and death row is annually emptied to feed the nation's hunger for televised murder-games. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Grangale's national animal is the Chimaera, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Grangale is ranked 5,557^th in the world and 3^rd in Mediterranean for Most Cultured, scoring 148 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.