The Kingdom of United Grisstonia is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by King Albus III with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 21.977 billion United Grisstonians are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Urbana. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient United Grisstonian economy, worth a remarkable 3,482 trillion Grissom Pounds a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 158,439 Grissom Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Frequent flyers are chiseled into statues, street cleaners are noticeably glum during jubilee celebrations, apples shaped like baguettes have become a strange new food fad, and billions of Grissom Pounds are spent to take high-quality photos of the Grasshopper Nebula. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. United Grisstonia's national animal is the Grasshopper, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Old Reformed Catholic Church.

United Grisstonia is ranked 3,627^th in the world and 1^st in United Kingdoms of Grisstonia for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 9,600.44 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.