The Holy Empire of GrimmWurm is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Vermiarch with an iron fist, and remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, avant-garde cinema, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.452 billion Grimmwörmers are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hochwacht. The average income tax rate is 85.7%.

The frighteningly efficient GrimmWurmian economy, worth 156 trillion Heiligmarks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 107,570 Heiligmarks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients, school children asked "what is two times two?" are likely to form a symposium to discuss how different answers make them feel, barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the Hochwacht Natural History Museum, and vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. GrimmWurm's national animal is the Gray Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

GrimmWurm is ranked 313,565^th in the world and 116^th in Sancturia for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -37 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.