The Commonwealth of Gradavar is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, enslaved workforce, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 9.415 billion Gradavarians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The tiny, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Gradavarian economy, worth a remarkable 2,619 trillion marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an amazing 278,184 marks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,268,899 per year while the poor average 37,214, a ratio of 34.1 to 1.

Military officers are given medals for disobeying orders, several citizens have complained about scientists abducting their pets for experimentation, binoculars sales are at an all-time high, and auditors are gutting every governmental department. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Gradavar's national animal is the leopard, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Gradavar is ranked 4,741^st in the world and 118^th in The East Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 169 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.