The Empire of Crazy Firemen is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Firefighter Clemente with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, complete lack of prisons, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless, devout population of 24.131 billion Crazy Firemenians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Seagrave. The average income tax rate is 96.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Crazy Firemenian economy, worth a remarkable 3,605 trillion Brotherhoods a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 149,398 Brotherhoods, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Urban parents tell their children that the family car went to a farm upstate, new pilots are regularly reminded that they are more expendable than their planes, jury selection begins with explaining what a jury is, and drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Crazy Firemen's national animal is the Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Church of the Rising Phoenix.

Crazy Firemen is ranked 213,366^th in the world and 4,725^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -13.8 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.