The Bright and Shiny Republic of Glittering Green is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by The Council of Green with a fair hand, and notable for its ban on automobiles, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.656 billion Greens 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 government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Glittaire. The average income tax rate is 95.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Green economy, worth 829 trillion Emeralds 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 146,613 Emeralds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Goldfish bowls are three metres in diameter, the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen, the nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks, and Scoutmasters debate whether luxury log cabins defeat the purpose of camping. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Glittering Green's national animal is the Squirrel, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Glittering Green is ranked 306,542^nd in the world and 2^nd in The Far Left for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -9.54 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.