The Free Land of Grusmar is a mid-sized, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 68 million Gruses love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 38.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Grusish economy, worth 2.42 trillion Grusmarks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 35,555 Grusmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most citizens in Grusmar are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government, trust-fund babies line up for places in community college, copies of the constitution are used as toilet paper, and international terrorists often get their weapons supply in Grusmar. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grusmar's national animal is the glass jelly, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Grusmar is ranked 290,274^th in the world and 22^nd in Markion for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8.31 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.