The Kingdom of Firic Empire is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Lord Phinix with an iron fist, and remarkable for its closed borders, barren, inhospitable landscape, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 18.725 billion Flamefolks 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry, Law & Order, and Education are also considered important, while Social Policy and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Subteric. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 39.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Firic Empirean economy, worth a remarkable 6,217 trillion Firons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 332,063 Firons, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,183,749 per year while the poor average 67,000, a ratio of 17.7 to 1.

If you go into the woods today you're sure of a big surprise, it's rare to find an unchewed pencil, the government has started a campaign to crack down on road rage and encourage alternate means of commuting, and people believe that if you teach a man to fish he won't buy fish from you any more. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Firic Empire's national animal is the Dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Fire Soul.

Firic Empire is ranked 284,805^th in the world and 335^th in The Black Hawks for Safest, scoring 3.41 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.