The Absolute Monarchy of Formendia is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Karl XVII with an iron fist, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 7.437 billion Formendians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berghamn. The average income tax rate is 66.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Formendian economy, worth 728 trillion Formediansk Kronor a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 98,016 Formediansk Kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Summer science camps are regularly raided by narcotics police, scientists pester asteroids with probes until they go away, condos feature wall-mounted cages containing endangered animals, and Karl XVII's office has a newly installed Max-Man arcade game programmed by a 5th-grader. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Formendia's national animal is the Deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Formendia is ranked 39,921^st in the world and 237^th in Europeia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 82.6 law-abiding acts per hour.