The Free Land of Grusmar is a large, socially progressive nation, notable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The democratic population of 148 million Gruses are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 41.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Grusish economy, worth 4.27 trillion Grusmarks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 28,838 Grusmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

On-call doctors who check their pagers during movies are banned from cinemas for life, merchant ships always travel line astern in Grusish waters, school uniforms are compulsory, and children's toy tractors have been seized as state property. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grusmar's national animal is the glass jelly, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Grusmar is ranked 107,211^th in the world and 11^th in Markion for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 44.28 on the Kitten Softness Rating.