The Borderlands of Grim Mole is a mid-sized, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 74 million Grim Moleans 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 medium-sized, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 42.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Grim Molean economy, worth 2.75 trillion Molish Credits 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 dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Pizza Delivery, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 37,133 Molish Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grim Mole's national animal is the Mole, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Grim Mole is ranked 116,954^th in the world and 5^th in MolMan Town for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,840.96 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.