The Gran Principl of Republic Under Specters Grasp is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its closed borders, deadly medical pandemics, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 17.833 billion Spectervians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kanaleur. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Spectervian economy, worth a remarkable 3,204 trillion credits a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 179,667 credits, with the richest citizens earning 6.0 times as much as the poorest.

Diplomats shake hands with their right and hide a poison dagger in their left, adult unemployment is rising as available jobs are filled by young children, the government is often referred to as "the biggest drug dealer in the nation", and shipping canals are a bit like unimaginative cheese shops -- filled with debris. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Republic Under Specters Grasp's national animal is the wolfhound, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Heirinsim.

Republic Under Specters Grasp is ranked 33,993^rd in the world and 4^th in Aeterna Publicae for Lowest Crime Rates, with 80.46 law-abiding acts per hour.