The Republic of Gronnvik is a very large, socially progressive nation, renowned for its daily referendums and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 409 million Gronnvikians 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 tiny, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.0%.

The thriving Gronnvikian economy, worth 28.1 trillion skillings a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Basket Weaving, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 68,799 skillings, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 295,753 per year while the poor average 10,225, a ratio of 28.9 to 1.

It turns out that you actually can put a price on intangible cultural heritage, printing out government documents requires the approval of at least three admins, citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges, and Gronnvik has designated Gronnvik City as its capital city. Crime is moderate. Gronnvik's national animal is the marten.

Gronnvik is ranked 158,822^nd in the world and 33^rd in Scandinavia for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 1,424.82 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.