The Silent Sands of Moorglade is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Olias with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 22.019 billion Moorgladeans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Qoquaq. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.2%.

The very strong Moorgladean economy, worth a remarkable 1,084 trillion Lires a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Retail. Average income is 49,251 Lires, with the richest citizens earning 7.2 times as much as the poorest.

Umbrellas are back in fashion, prisoners regularly escape detention posing as scarecrows, the National Archive now covers square miles of warehouses in order to accommodate its new stone tablets system, and children who express a belief in Santa are labelled 'delusional cultists'. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Moorglade's national animal is the Lemming, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Moorglade is ranked 97,272^nd in the world and 7^th in The Watchtower for Most Cultured, scoring 66 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.