The Republic of Grensal is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and otherworldly petting zoo. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 341 million Grensalians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lebrun. The average income tax rate is 47.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Grensalian economy, worth 26.9 trillion Leuros a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 78,909 Leuros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

On-call doctors who check their pagers during movies are banned from cinemas for life, ships are encouraged to deliberately run aground onto Grensalian beaches, cutting-edge missile systems are being retrofitted to twin-prop air force biplanes, and people often feel unbalanced by their daily commute. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grensal's national animal is the Ant, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Grensal is ranked 121,490^th in the world and 2,225^th in the South Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 1,958.96 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.