The Constitutional Monarchy of Gryoine is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Felix Fawkes with an even hand, and notable for its daily referendums, free-roaming dinosaurs, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 19.032 billion Gryonese have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Grietnog Castle. The average income tax rate is 92.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gryonese economy, worth a remarkable 2,150 trillion Gryonese Sends a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 112,982 Gryonese Sends, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Astronauts take one small step for Gryoine and one giant step backward from confrontation, anti-government web sites are springing up, doctors are learning that red tape makes ineffective bandages, and under love's heavy burden Felix Fawkes sinks lower in the political right's esteem. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gryoine's national animal is the Thoforn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gryoine is ranked 6,480^th in the world and 319^th in Osiris for Most Cultured, scoring 138 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.