The Empire of Glorius is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, state-planned economy, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 15.6 billion Gloriusians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The tiny, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 70.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gloriusian economy, worth a remarkable 4,719 trillion Glories a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 302,532 Glories, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Inter-species marriages are ignored by the government, museums offer moralization or your money back, it is still not known if the commander in chief outranks the supreme commander, and scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Glorius's national animal is the Snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Glorius is ranked 45,313^th in the world and 764^th in The North Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 4,665.55 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.