The Herd of Gnorbu is a mammoth, safe nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, frequent executions, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 7.316 billion Gnorbu are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 64.8%.

The all-consuming Gnorbu economy, worth 680 trillion fleeces a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 93,079 fleeces, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

The Gnorbu government is the world's largest NGO, one does not simply walk into the tundra, the internet has been placed under government control, and the government regularly reassures citizens that there are no monsters under their beds. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gnorbu's national animal is the Gnorbu, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Gnorbu is ranked 36,175^th in the world and 1^st in Arborhaven for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,407.06 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.