The Dictatorial States of Fairmount is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by President Peter with an iron fist, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, public floggings, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 10.637 billion Fairmountians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Illmoor. The average income tax rate is 86.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Fairmountian economy, worth a remarkable 1,630 trillion Lors a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 153,331 Lors, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Savvy students quote paywalled research knowing that university lecturers can't afford to check the citations, there have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons', there's an aura of pseudoscience around academia, and aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fairmount's national animal is the Black Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Christianity.

Fairmount is ranked 241,713^th in the world and 248^th in Commonwealth of Liberty for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 46.62 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.