The Goodness Gracious of Great Balls of Fire is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Jerry Lee Lewis with an even hand, and notable for its compulsory military service, enslaved workforce, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.863 billion Great Balls of Fireans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of fire. The average income tax rate is 68.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Great Balls of Firean economy, worth a remarkable 1,006 trillion great balls of fire a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 128,061 great balls of fire, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Dreams of entering the Super League have been relegated to the history books, extreme hiring regulations mean a job in Great Balls of Fire is often a lifetime appointment, getting an autograph has become harder than ever, and military pilots spend more time scraping feathers off their engines than flying their aircraft. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Great Balls of Fire's national animal is the great ball of fire, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Great Balls of Fire is ranked 16,960^th in the world and 8^th in Stereo Hearts for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 9,630.1 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.