The Free Land of Grue is a massive, safe nation, notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, absence of drug laws, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.245 billion Grueans enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Grueville. The average income tax rate is 87.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gruean economy, worth 358 trillion Grue Dollars a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 110,450 Grue Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping, the nation has returned to more conventional warfare to slaughter its enemies, families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain, and scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grue's national animal is the Manatee, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Grue is ranked 93,818^th in the world and 3,759^th in The North Pacific for Highest Wealthy Incomes, with 130,090 Standard Monetary Units.