The United Socialist States of Fridarland is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.055 billion Fridarlandians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Beauvoir. The average income tax rate is 69.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Fridarlandian economy, worth 14.2 trillion quans 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 led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Automobile Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 13,463 quans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The police have been known to wiretap confessional boxes, nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, there's a lot of babies crying for milk in the middle of the day, and the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fridarland's national animal is the Whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Fridarland is ranked 214,860^th in the world and 8,098^th in Osiris for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -3.41 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.