The Loving Couple of -F4n-4rt- is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Warden Wrath with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory vegetarianism, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 6.261 billion -F4n-4rt-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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Conformatorium. The average income tax rate is 45.5%.

The frighteningly efficient -F4n-4rt-ian economy, worth 706 trillion snails a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 112,891 snails, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Military units are often seen arguing over which one is truly favored by the gods, the year's most anticipated show is "Great Deals on Delicious Meals", mountain rescue missions can end with more people lost than found, and soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. -F4n-4rt-'s national animal is the owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cards.

-F4n-4rt- is ranked 252,822^nd in the world and 17^th in Trading Cards for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -4.47 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.