The Alternate Provisional Gov't of Northrop Grumman is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 32.498 billion Grummians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The large, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Healthcare, Education, and Environment are also considered important, while Spirituality and Public Transport aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hawthorne. The average income tax rate is 68.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Grummian economy, worth a remarkable 3,208 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 98,714 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Schoolchildren have twice-weekly sex education classes, the new Refuse Hills housing development is under construction, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, and marketing departments of corporate giants compete to sponsor little league teams. Crime is totally unknown. Northrop Grumman's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Northrop Grumman is ranked 16,407^th in the world and 5^th in The Vast for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 3,805.54 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.