The United Kingdom of Gristol-Serkonos is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Chancellor Kaniehtiio Fox with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 23.623 billion Gristol-Serkonoseans 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 Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pontiac Bernadotte. The average income tax rate is 71.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Gristol-Serkonosean economy, worth a remarkable 2,008 trillion Kronor a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 85,035 Kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, dinner parties often end in politically charged fist fights, royalist is the most offensive slur in the Gristol-Serkonosean language, and surrogate mothers are encouraged to refer to their wombs as 'rental space'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gristol-Serkonos's national animal is the Swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Violetism.

Gristol-Serkonos is ranked 45,438^th in the world and 7^th in Ajax for Lowest Crime Rates, with 75.61 law-abiding acts per hour.