The Democratic Republic of Freestania is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 117 million Freestanians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 65.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Freestanian economy, worth 5.35 trillion libery 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 Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 45,760 libery dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

It takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle, schoolkids say that the air doesn't taste like wee-wee any more, the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies, and scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Freestania's national animal is the three-headed eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Freestania is ranked 72,274^th in the world and 65^th in Dead Sea for Lowest Crime Rates, with 69.74 law-abiding acts per hour.