The Federal Republic of Glastrolheim is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Nathalie Berton Kromeier with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, national health service, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 2.954 billion Glastrolians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lassana. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 13.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Glastrolian economy, worth 470 trillion Valdrins a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 159,230 Valdrins, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 880,371 per year while the poor average 14,523, a ratio of 60.6 to 1.

Colonial citizens are forced to sing the praise of the "Great Glastrolian Liberator", the government's new "quiet competence" initiative has supporters and detractors alike reeling in confusion, scientific progress marches ever forward with the first ever launch of a cheeseburger into space, and panicking criminals no longer flush contraband down the toilet. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Glastrolheim's national animal is the mist owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Nefilianism.

Glastrolheim is ranked 155,820^th in the world and 1,389^th in the West Pacific for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 1,371.28 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.