The Democratic Republic of Gray Wolfe is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Matthew McLaughlin with a fair hand, and notable for its national health service, complete lack of prisons, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.122 billion Gray Wolfeans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wülffe. The average income tax rate is 88.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gray Wolfean economy, worth 656 trillion Wolfians a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 128,191 Wolfians, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries, preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance, burnt-out forty-foot-tall wicker men dot the countryside, and loudmouthed journalists are given the chop. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gray Wolfe's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gray Wolfe is ranked 266,861^st in the world and 12^th in New Republic Charter for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -8.83 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.