The Republic of Formicaria is a tiny, safe nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 9 million Formicarians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 73.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling Formicarian economy, worth 150 billion Ant-Dollars 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 16,737 Ant-Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Extreme political groups are outlawed, voting is voluntary, weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law, and Leader's office has a newly installed Max-Man arcade game programmed by a 5th-grader. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Formicaria's national animal is the ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Formicaria is ranked 180,775^th in the world and 642^nd in Talonia for Fattest Citizens, with 9.64 Obesity Rate.