The Disputed Territories of The GLA is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 673 million GLA Rebels are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 67.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant GLA economy, worth 13.0 trillion Supplies 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 19,385 Supplies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military spending recently hit a new high, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, genetic researchers have been expelled, and the public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The GLA's national animal is the GLA Worker, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The GLA is ranked 78,934^th in the world and 6^th in Codex Ylvus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 68.71 law-abiding acts per hour.