The Holy Yellow Veins of Grennick Gold is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by President Aurelius M Dior with an iron fist, and notable for its flagrant waste-dumping, pith helmet sales, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 11.607 billion Grengoldians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government prioritizes Industry, although Law & Order, Administration, and Education are also considered important, while Welfare and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Argonaut Mine. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Grengoldian economy, worth a remarkable 2,451 trillion Gold Standards a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 211,173 Gold Standards, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,133,830 per year while the poor average 20,522, a ratio of 55.2 to 1.

The government is outsourcing itself, reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians, skyscrapers get built in just days, and the military patrols the streets in search of possible secessionists. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Grennick Gold's national animal is the Golden Hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Grennick Gold is ranked 14,759^th in the world and 29^th in Lands End for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,492.4 on the Gilded Widget Scale.