The Kingdom of Glorkinstein is a huge, genial nation, notable for its parental licensing program, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 548 million Glorkinsteinians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Talvez. The average income tax rate is 52.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Glorkinsteinian economy, worth 15.7 trillion pennies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. Average income is 28,665 pennies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Basic multiplication is all you need to know to have a child, giggling teens are asked to put their mouths on rubber dolls, large sections of Glorkinstein have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there, and tourists visit Glorkinstein to mass-moon Glorkinsteinian politicians. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Glorkinstein's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Glorkinstein is ranked 77,871^st in the world and 1,646^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 68 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.