The Dancing Couple of Grom is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Camila with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory vegetarianism, parental licensing program, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.75 billion Gromians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Boiling Isles. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 69.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Gromian economy, worth a remarkable 1,228 trillion snails a year, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 114,309 snails, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 339,378 per year while the poor average 30,204, a ratio of 11.2 to 1.

Athletes are renowned for being the best at maths, anti-environmentalist dissidents must beware of government plants in their midst, sociologists ponder how baby-napped ethnic minority 'runaways' could have gone so bad so soon, and long queues are apparently signs of a well-run airport. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grom's national animal is the owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cards.

Grom is ranked 26,737^th in the world and 22^nd in Temporary Home for Most Corrupt Governments, with 86.44 kickbacks per hour.