The Grand Duchy of Forearza is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, vat-grown people, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 701 million Forearzans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Blackstone. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Forearzan economy, worth 100 trillion Ducats a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Information Technology. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 142,944 Ducats, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 820,153 per year while the poor average 11,995, a ratio of 68.4 to 1.

The only crimes that get investigated are doughnut heists, the nation's most popular sport is sabotaging foreigners' hopes and dreams, the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?", and constituents prefer a carrot and boomstick approach to dealing with politicians. Crime is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Forearza's national animal is the leopard, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Forearza is ranked 1,655^th in the world and 31^st in the South Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 16,697.58 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.