The United Space Federation of Franconia Empire is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Empress Xemptoworth with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, daily referendums, and infamous sell-swords. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 7.681 billion Franconians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Juarez. The average income tax rate is 89.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Franconia Empirean economy, worth 995 trillion UCB Credits a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 129,542 UCB Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, banana distribution among collective farm workers is an important topic in public discourse, the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes, and dozens of additional foreign policy specialists have been sent to the country's WA Mission. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Franconia Empire's national animal is the Morpentine Snake of Jovinia, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Menonite Bretheren Christianity.

Franconia Empire is ranked 140,832^nd in the world and 25^th in Selene for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 13,213.36 Standard Monetary Units.