The Half-Decent Polity of Gryphonian Alliance is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by UltraPraetor Reime Sewthenz with a fair hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 14.229 billion Griffins are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Plasmadius Prime. The average income tax rate is 98.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Gryphonic economy, worth a remarkable 2,734 trillion criuses a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 192,163 criuses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A PhD just ain't what it used to be, UltraPraetor Reime Sewthenz's campaign events reach their climax when the celebrity endorsers reveal themselves, it's been a banner year for local vexillology, and overhead luggage compartments on planes sometimes conceal dimunitive intelligence officers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gryphonian Alliance's national animal is the dawn phantom, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Nyarlathotep.

Gryphonian Alliance is ranked 2,576^th in the world and 39^th in the West Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 18,442.63 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.