The Free Land of Gravelines is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its enslaved workforce, free-roaming dinosaurs, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.563 billion Gravelinesians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 47.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gravelinesian economy, worth 796 trillion U238s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 121,332 U238s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Signs of extraterrestrial life are just foreign astronauts evading Gravelinesian justice, male med students learning female anatomy do so with their eyes tightly closed, voting for pro-Bigtopian candidates is voluntary, and the government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gravelines's national animal is the Millirem, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gravelines is ranked 69,064^th in the world and 40^th in India for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 3,601.26 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.