The Borderlands of Fune Mil is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its daily referendums and state-planned economy. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 228 million Fune Milians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 33.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Fune Milian economy, worth 9.55 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is 41,872 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military officials are questioning the policy of ceding the nation's territory in exchange for promises not to invade it, government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read, in musicals everybody's a little bit racist, and digital novelty coins make for surprising vanguards of the revolution. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fune Mil's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Fune Mil is ranked 172,003^rd in the world and 808^th in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 7,164.64 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.