The Dictatorship of Greater Poundland is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Mr M with an iron fist, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, pith helmet sales, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.058 billion Poundlanders 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of London. The average income tax rate is 60.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Poundlanian economy, worth 124 trillion British Pound Sterlings 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, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. 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 118,027 British Pound Sterlings, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Players panic as they discover the newest chain can reset their populations and even delete their nations (Greater Poundland has found 2 easter eggs), no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed, gambling is outlawed, and military pilots spend more time scraping feathers off their engines than flying their aircraft. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Greater Poundland's national animal is the £1 Mug, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Unreligous.

Greater Poundland is ranked 218,817^th in the world and 1,047^th in Europe for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -3.54 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.