The Free Land of Glossa is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its national health service, ban on automobiles, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, devout population of 910 million Glossans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shroomston. The average income tax rate is 77.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Glossan economy, worth 64.6 trillion Bleps 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 Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is 70,995 Bleps, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Burning twigs to keep warm while lost in the wild is now a felony, Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume, Ant Eater is one of the most popular forenames in Glossa, and NPCs in MMORPGs regularly interrupt cutscenes with OOC reminders that they aren't real people. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Glossa's national animal is the Ant Eater, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Glossa is ranked 51,921^st in the world and 124^th in Forest for Lowest Crime Rates, with 78.06 law-abiding acts per hour.