The Republic of Holiday Fartcruise is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 2.742 billion Holiday Fartcruiseans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 68.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Holiday Fartcruisean economy, worth 120 trillion 5Gs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Woodchip Exports, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 43,988 5Gs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security, the masses are surrendering their civil liberties without complaint for the sake of shopping convenience, people accuse the government of being in bed with Big Safety, and the examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Holiday Fartcruise's national animal is the boat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Holiday Fartcruise is ranked 68,506^th in the world and 3,453^rd in Osiris for Most Patriotic, with 20.57 flags saluted per person per day.