The Viking Horde of Fridas is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, democratic, devout population of 1.499 billion Fridasians 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 53.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Fridasian economy, worth 86.8 trillion lirsens a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 57,884 lirsens, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

The government says that Possession is nine-tenths of the Lore, life expectancy is way down but posthuman perfectionism is way up, pedants defending Leader observe that psychopaths and sociopaths aren't exactly the same thing, and a major religion has been named as Fridas's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fridas's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Fridas is ranked 90,209^th in the world and 280^th in Starlight for Most Cultured, scoring 67 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.