The Democratic Republic of Glistara is a mid-sized, genial nation, notable for its state-planned economy, anti-smoking policies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 69 million Glistarans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 70.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Glistaran economy, worth 2.52 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 36,501 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Critical thinking is grounds for expulsion from university, prisons in Glistara are the summer homes of murderers, the crispy fried liver of a bee is prized as a tasty treat by vagrants, and warfare increasingly resembles a video game. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Glistara's national animal is the bee, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Glistara is ranked 215,071^st in the world and 90^th in Refugia for Fattest Citizens, with 8.95 Obesity Rate.