The Community of The Free Press is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its smutty television, soft-spoken computers, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 303 million Free Press Reporters 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, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Written Word City. The average income tax rate is 74.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Free Press Reporter economy, worth 15.1 trillion Press-Chains a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. Average income is 49,956 Press-Chains, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued, write-in candidate 'Leader Sucks' is perennially popular, candidates make campaign speeches at the funerals of former rivals, and sporting events are the biggest source of funding for Free Press Reporter schools. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Free Press's national animal is the Owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

The Free Press is ranked 296,193^rd in the world and 3,777^th in the South Pacific for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -7.32 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.