The Kingdom of Gwyndelm is a gargantuan, orderly nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 15.438 billion Gwyndelmians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Gwyndelmian economy, worth a remarkable 3,380 trillion Crowns a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 218,957 Crowns, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 878,894 per year while the poor average 36,553, a ratio of 24.0 to 1.

Many friends and relatives of Leader have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations, contestants on Gwyndelm's Got Talent are screened by the government to make sure that they actually have talent, party-lovers often change religions just for the weekend, and the government has repealed elections for fear of 'mob rule'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Gwyndelm's national animal is the Griffin, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Gwyndelm is ranked 47,098^th in the world and 37^th in The Kingdom of Great Britain for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,119.24 on the Gilded Widget Scale.