The Stickiness of Gluons is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its frequent executions, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.488 billion Gluons are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 88.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gluonsian economy, worth 773 trillion entanglements a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 172,256 entanglements, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Students and teachers are regularly stopped and searched for symbols of religious affiliation before class, factories place endangered birds in their rafters in pursuit of government protections, people accuse the government of being in bed with Big Safety, and the big red machine has ground to a halt. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gluons's national animal is the Schrödinger's cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gluons is ranked 9,207^th in the world and 44^th in eta for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 43,246.51 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.