The Dictatorship of Gria Deles is a huge, safe nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 540 million Gria Delesians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Danrella. The average income tax rate is 76.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Gria Delesian economy, worth 25.0 trillion deniers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. Average income is 46,219 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The military is on a massive recruiting drive in advance of an invasion of Brasilistan, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, the military is researching proton packs and PK-meters to combat "unseen enemy forces", and every workday begins with group therapy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gria Deles's national animal is the porpoise, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Gria Deles is ranked 194,730^th in the world and 578^th in Carcassonne for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 6,137.06 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.