The Kingdom of Glorkinstein is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 623 million Glorkinsteinians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Talvez. The average income tax rate is 55.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Glorkinsteinian economy, worth 16.2 trillion pennies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. Average income is 26,034 pennies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Naturists are jailed regularly for indecent exposure, bowling teams spend more time looking at their phones than the pins, panicking criminals no longer flush contraband down the toilet, and elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Glorkinstein's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Glorkinstein is ranked 24,255^th in the world and 757^th in The North Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 21.52 average smiles per day.