The Free Land of Fiparatus is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Otto Von Skorzeny with a fair hand, and notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 8.877 billion Fiparatusians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Execopolis. The average income tax rate is 82.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Fiparatusian economy, worth a remarkable 1,195 trillion marxes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 134,675 marxes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fifteen-year-olds cannot walk younger siblings to school without a professional Childcare and Education Certificate, the "temporary replacement bus service" is now a permanent fixture, psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Otto Von Skorzeny to meetings with foreign heads of state, and Otto Von Skorzeny's peyote-induced "let's all just be friends" speech is trending world-wide. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fiparatus's national animal is the desert fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Religious Liberty.

Fiparatus is ranked 293,805^th in the world and 188^th in The Order of the Grey Wardens for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -10.63 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.