The Empire of Greater Green Sword is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Tawan The Great with an iron fist, and renowned for its vat-grown people, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.059 billion The Swordians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Shield. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 62.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Greater Green Swordian economy, worth 175 trillion Green Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 165,495 Green Credits, with the richest citizens earning 5.9 times as much as the poorest.

Guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites, Michelin-star chefs are being called on to prepare menus for six-year-olds, frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security, and sermons are regularly interrupted by businessmen taking phone calls. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Greater Green Sword's national animal is the Green Dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Greater Green Sword is ranked 41,005^th in the world and 629^th in the South Pacific for Highest Poor Incomes, with 63,032.66 Standard Monetary Units.