The Holy Empire of GrimmWurm is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Vermiarch with an iron fist, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, infamous sell-swords, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.318 billion Grimmwörmers are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hochwacht. The average income tax rate is 84.5%.

The frighteningly efficient GrimmWurmian economy, worth 144 trillion Heiligmarks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 109,426 Heiligmarks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, boats straying just metres away from the shore will raise the ire of the Coast Guard, punk-rockers and girl-bands are united in their loss of fashion statements, and crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. GrimmWurm's national animal is the Gray Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

GrimmWurm is ranked 293,309^th in the world and 59^th in Sancturia for Largest Black Market, with 32.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.