The State of Greenough is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 25.01 billion Greenoughians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.9%.

The very strong Greenoughian economy, worth a remarkable 1,015 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Soda Sales, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 40,590 betales, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 275,969 per year while the poor average 2,181, a ratio of 126 to 1.

Euthanasia is illegal, voting is voluntary, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, and the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars. Crime is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Greenough's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Greenough is ranked 289,544^th in the world and 8^th in Lisbon for Lowest Crime Rates, with 32.83 law-abiding acts per hour.