The Commonwealth of The Free Islands is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.563 billion Free Islandsians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 90.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Free Islandsian economy, worth 106 trillion Tetrapods a year, is highly specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving and Trout Farming. Average income is 68,316 Tetrapods, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tourists need only sign on the dotted line to become citizens, Leader has just been declared ruler of The Free Islands in an international press conference, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, and photographers can be found hiding behind the curtains in Leader's bedroom. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Free Islands's national animal is the Tiktaalik, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Free Islands is ranked 277,805^th in the world and 349^th in Eurth for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 6,558.4 Standard Monetary Units.