The Galactic Empire of Flarbinia is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Grand Emperor Vladimir Novgorod IV with an iron fist, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and barren, inhospitable landscape. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 15.232 billion Flarbinians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Deroth Ungol. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Flarbinian economy, worth a remarkable 7,276 trillion Shark'towels a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an amazing 477,707 Shark'towels, with the richest citizens earning 5.0 times as much as the poorest.

Trespassers entering Grand Emperor Vladimir Novgorod IV's office are immediately vaporized, prisoners fit in their parole hearings around their spa treatments, government officials across Flarbinia are being "encouraged" to adopt Hellhounds to set an example for the populace, and UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Flarbinia's national animal is the Hellhound, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Church Of Crulmoxius.

Flarbinia is ranked 30,465^th in the world and 789^th in Lazarus for Most Pro-Market, scoring 67.33 on the Rand Index.