The Loving Couple of -Fan4rt- is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Azura with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 5.041 billion -Fan4rt-ians 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Boiling Isles. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.9%.

The frighteningly efficient -Fan4rt-ian economy, worth 461 trillion snails a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 91,606 snails, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 266,070 per year while the poor average 24,965, a ratio of 10.7 to 1.

Flipping a coin to make a decision leads to a referral to Gambling Addiction Services, gigantic marble churches take up almost half the land area of small villages, supermarkets and large corporate farms are a thing of the past, and road rage is rarer but more terminal now that many people drive fully-operational battle tanks to work. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -Fan4rt-'s national animal is the owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cards.

-Fan4rt- is ranked 55,056^th in the world and 59^th in Anteria for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,576.39 on the Gilded Widget Scale.