The Free Land of Glossa is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, ban on automobiles, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, devout population of 786 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 76.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Glossan economy, worth 55.4 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 70,428 Bleps, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting, citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges, government-sponsored gallows are being erected by Violetist temples, and the last thing Glossan soldiers hear before charging into battle is a preacher trying to convert them. 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 259,734^th in the world and 247^th in Forest for Largest Populations, with 786 million capita.