The Coastal Town of El Granada is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Jackie Speier with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, vat-grown people, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic population of 21.376 billion El Granadans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Surfers Beach. The average income tax rate is 96.4%.

The frighteningly efficient El Granadan economy, worth a remarkable 2,879 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 134,698 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Torture is illegal, there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality, citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons, and tourists flock to see the giant stone carvings of historical leaders at Mount Rushless. Crime is totally unknown. El Granada's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Neo-Paganism.

El Granada is ranked 2,730^th in the world and 1^st in Half Moon Bay for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 18,999.48 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.