The Condominium Association of Green Briar is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Premier Josef with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, soft-spoken computers, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.701 billion Green Briarians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Spot. The average income tax rate is 97.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Green Briarian economy, worth 818 trillion Marijuana Cookies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an amazing 221,158 Marijuana Cookies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bigtopian interference in domestic elections is always democratically sanctioned, the new Cat Supremacy Party is faring well in the polls, the election for Premier Josef's office's janitor is heating up, and leading ethologists are being investigated for illegal electoral interference. Crime is totally unknown. Green Briar's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Green Briar is ranked 44,357^th in the world and 1,117^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Income Equality, scoring 62.95 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.