The United Provinces of Grainstan is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Simeon Yoder with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 7.339 billion Grainstanians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Salah. The average income tax rate is 97.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Grainstanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,273 trillion Convertible Mark of One Thousand Mills a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 173,529 Convertible Mark of One Thousand Mills, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Billions of Convertible Mark of One Thousand Mills are spent to take high-quality photos of the Kakapo Nebula, pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card, nocturnal light pollution is mostly blue, and exports are stamped with "made by the invisible hand you commies". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grainstan's national animal is the Kakapo, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Grainstan is ranked 26,144^th in the world and 484^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 269.73 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.