The United Socialist Provinces of Glauberg is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The compassionate, democratic population of 928 million Glaubergians 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, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Frigarten. The average income tax rate is 80.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Glaubergian economy, worth 88.5 trillion gelds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 95,330 gelds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Honey bee is a protected species, poaching has been on the rise after animals from the nation's zoos were released into the wild, tabloids publicly shun nurses for not calling home on the weekends, and the comic book series 'Leader and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller. Crime is totally unknown. Glauberg's national animal is the Honey bee, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Glauberg is ranked 20,009^th in the world and 310^th in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 280.04 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.