The Federal Republic of Glastol is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Premier Walace Hungria with a fair hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, frequent executions, and otherworldly petting zoo. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 3.804 billion Glastolians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lassana. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 14.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Glastolian economy, worth 736 trillion tofins a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 193,515 tofins, with the richest citizens earning 9.3 times as much as the poorest.

Diners regard burgers made from mechanically reclaimed cow protein as "proper meat", children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, Premier Walace Hungria's speeches are beloved by insomniacs, and there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Glastol's national animal is the smooth albino snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Nefelianism.

Glastol is ranked 42,308^th in the world and 410^th in the West Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 4,927.49 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.