The Free Land of Glossa is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, lack of airports, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, devout population of 736 million Glossans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shroomston. The average income tax rate is 76.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Glossan economy, worth 51.3 trillion Bleps a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is 69,749 Bleps, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Halberds are common 18th birthday presents, the Museum of Soybeans is the cultural heart of the nation, arguments about toilet seats being left up or down get surprisingly heated, and the needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Glossa's national animal is the Ant Eater, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Glossa is ranked 71,830^th in the world and 150^th in Forest for Most Developed, scoring 69.96 on the Human Development Index.