The Republic of Fachu 9 is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, zero percent divorce rate, and parental licensing program. The compassionate, democratic population of 678 million Fachu 9ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kamania 9. The average income tax rate is 34.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Fachu 9ian economy, worth 22.6 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 33,358 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Nature reserves often contain artificial waterfalls and concrete paths, a positive pregnancy test doubles as a visa, signs at the border tell international drivers where they can put their cars, and pitchforks and torches are coming back into fashion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fachu 9's national animal is the dolphin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Fachu 9 is ranked 200,947^th in the world and 16^th in Fachu Puppet Storage for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 5,859.22 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.