The Republic of FirenIce is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 43.109 billion FirenIceans 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, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 68.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but inefficient FirenIcean economy, worth a remarkable 1,195 trillion fjslaks 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 Automobile Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 27,742 fjslaks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. FirenIce's national animal is the fjksla, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

FirenIce is ranked 128,307^th in the world and 1^st in 0000000000 Soviet Union for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.