The United States of FirePheonix is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by The Ten Scholars with a fair hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, sprawling nuclear power plants, and digital currency. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 1.957 billion FirePheonixians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Intelligentsia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 50.9%.

The frighteningly efficient FirePheonixian economy, worth 418 trillion bells a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an amazing 213,679 bells, with the richest citizens earning 9.5 times as much as the poorest.

Refugees from other nations are flocking to FirePheonix's border, families burn The Ten Scholars's latest official photograph to keep warm, elementary school children develop thousand-yard stares, and children raised in multi-faith households claim the other deity would let them stay up later. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. FirePheonix's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is mongadace.

FirePheonix is ranked 279,061^st in the world and 220^th in The League for Least Corrupt Governments, with 89.04 percentage of bribes refused.