The Republic of Mae Griffthain is a mammoth, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-working population of 7.723 billion Mae Griffthainians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.8%.

The thriving Mae Griffthainian economy, worth 539 trillion Griffthainian skyuples a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 69,815 Griffthainian skyuples, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 229,797 per year while the poor average 15,890, a ratio of 14.5 to 1.

Seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma, corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians, the automotive industry soaks up huge government handouts, and same-sex marriages are increasingly common. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Mae Griffthain's national animal is the swan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Mae Griffthain is ranked 285,672^nd in the world and 189^th in Nearspace Omniverse for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 290.96 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.