The Commonwealth of Gresonia is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 684 million Gresonians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Greshia. The average income tax rate is 68.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Gresonian economy, worth 22.4 trillion Greshas a year, is dominated by the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 32,718 Greshas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Wind farms are erected on shuttered oil platforms, education is transforming people into first-rate snobs, abortions are routinely performed in the nation's hospitals, and the nightly news reports prosaically on the government blindly throwing money at despotic kidnappers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gresonia's national animal is the Heron, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Gresonia is ranked 192,315^th in the world and 2,603^rd in the South Pacific for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 110.51 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.