The Kingdom of Growball is a titanic, safe nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 21.364 billion Growballers love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Environment, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 68.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Growballic economy, worth a remarkable 1,903 trillion golden days a year, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 89,084 golden days, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sleep-deprived officials are known to collapse after late night revision for their examinations, government ministers have eclectic tastes in curtains, bemused schoolkids colour in their favourite quadratic equations with crayons, and older citizens lament over the loss of law and order. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Growball's national animal is the cow, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Growball is ranked 21,160^th in the world and 1^st in Exercise Ball for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 7,626.21 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.