The State of Grand Trunk is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 30.285 billion Grand Trunkians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 14.3%.

The powerhouse Grand Trunkian economy, worth a remarkable 1,279 trillion betales a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 42,263 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 148,811 per year while the poor average 8,690, a ratio of 17.1 to 1.

All tariffs have been abolished, Grand Trunk has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, the Governor has just been declared ruler of Grand Trunk in an international press conference, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime is moderate. Grand Trunk's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Grand Trunk is ranked 89,011^th in the world and 1^st in The Grand Trunk for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 1,523.69 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.