The Holy Yellow Veins of Grennick Gold is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by President Aurelius M Dior with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, flagrant waste-dumping, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 20.506 billion Grengoldians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government prioritizes Industry, although Law & Order, Education, and Administration are also considered important, while Welfare and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Argonaut Mine. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Grengoldian economy, worth a remarkable 4,814 trillion Gold Standards a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 234,761 Gold Standards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 721,541 per year while the poor average 59,047, a ratio of 12.2 to 1.

The easiest method of escaping from prison is to take singing lessons, the inchworm that measured the marigolds is six feet under, street food vendors are accompanied by personal fleets of garbage trucks, and making up random numbers to name new asteroids is the bulk of astronomers' work. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Grennick Gold's national animal is the Golden Hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Grennick Gold is ranked 42,897^th in the world and 19^th in Lands End for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 22,675.31 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.