The Organic Vegan Commune of Frustrated Franciscans is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Friar Cadfail with an even hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, suspicion of poets, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, devout population of 43.697 billion Franciscans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rockville Centre. The average income tax rate is 29.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Franciscan economy, worth a remarkable 3,822 trillion rosaries a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 87,467 rosaries, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ex-cons are paid to remain law-abidingly dull, ministers browse Alright! magazine for fashion tips, residents are readily ratting out rats in restaurants, and the Treasury has been accused of flushing money down the toilet. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Frustrated Franciscans's national animal is the brown bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Roman Catholic.

Frustrated Franciscans is ranked 78,822^nd in the world and 35^th in Catholic for Highest Average Incomes, with 87,467.35 Standard Monetary Units.