The State of Field Trip is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 42.991 billion Field Tripians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.6%.

The powerhouse Field Tripian economy, worth a remarkable 2,284 trillion betales a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 53,144 betales, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 214,178 per year while the poor average 8,813, a ratio of 24.3 to 1.

Education and welfare spending are on the rise, voters must frequently select what they view as the lesser of two evils on the ballot, Field Trip has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Field Trip in an international press conference. Crime is a problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Field Trip's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Field Trip is ranked 253,837^th in the world and 1^st in Field Trip for Safest, scoring 27.77 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.