The Never-ending Nightmare of Grave_n_idle is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Big Brother with an iron fist, and remarkable for its lack of airports, ban on automobiles, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 34.848 billion Graven Idols 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Graveyard. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Grave_n_idlean economy, worth a remarkable 8,180 trillion Eternal Souls a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 234,745 Eternal Souls, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, school lockers are filled with fancy underwear, and Grave_n_idle's Medieval Faire is renowned as one of the best in the region. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grave_n_idle's national animal is the Unspeakable Eldritch Horror, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Violetism.

Grave_n_idle is ranked 293,607^th in the world and 11,437^th in Balder for Highest Disposable Incomes, with zero Standard Monetary Units.