The Borderlands of Phanamunia is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its pith helmet sales, strictly enforced bedtime, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.831 billion Phanamunians 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 enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 79.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Phanamunian economy, worth 177 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 96,679 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Foreign countries consider stepping on their grass to be a serious offense, exterminator companies deploy nerve gas in turf wars, the nation's children are known for being even more apathetic and cynical than their parents, and the government is overcome with ennui. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Phanamunia's national animal is the turtle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Phanamunia is ranked 215,919^th in the world and 395^th in The UMNS for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -5 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.