The Dancing Couple of Grometheus is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Eda with an iron fist, and renowned for its frequent executions, ritual sacrifices, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.793 billion Grometheusians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Boiling Isles. The average income tax rate is 78.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Grometheusian economy, worth a remarkable 1,367 trillion snails a year, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 126,730 snails, with the richest citizens earning 5.0 times as much as the poorest.

People are bored of easy crossword puzzles, five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars, heartfelt sentiments are mercilessly marketed by a million-snail treacle machine, and machine gun nests are the latest must-have gardening trend. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grometheus's national animal is the owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Cards.

Grometheus is ranked 21,107^th in the world and 21^st in Temporary Home for Most Corrupt Governments, with 103.45 kickbacks per hour.