The Socialist Federal Republic of Frencin is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Primer Glasontia with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, ubiquitous missile silos, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 16.706 billion Frencins are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Towcester. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Frencinite economy, worth a remarkable 4,764 trillion Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 285,181 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sex changes are routinely performed at Frencin's hospitals, a faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park, the government supplies ragtag bands of resistance fighters in exchange for vague promises of future payment, and the government's new "quiet competence" initiative has supporters and detractors alike reeling in confusion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Frencin's national animal is the Frencinite Falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Humanism.

Frencin is ranked 16,637^th in the world and 16^th in The Western Isles for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 6,378.29 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.