The Apolytonian States of Grant Park is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by The Reverend Bob Dobbs with an iron fist, and notable for its digital currency, aversion to nipples, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 37.167 billion Grant Parkers are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Slack. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 87.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Grant Parker economy, worth a remarkable 3,930 trillion ningis a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 105,762 ningis, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 301,084 per year while the poor average 29,641, a ratio of 10.2 to 1.

The nation's air defense strategy is two-dimensional, teen parties are often ruined by wet blanket chaperones, Super Barry Brothers is the most popular video game in the nation, and adulthood begins with the creation of an email account. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grant Park's national animal is the yeti, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Church of the SubGenius.

Grant Park is ranked 290,338^th in the world and 4^th in The Hill for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -14.82 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.