The Republic of FirstLast is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Beginend with an even hand, and notable for its digital currency, compulsory military service, and unlimited-speed roads. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 2.246 billion FirstLastians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rutilicus. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.9%.

The frighteningly efficient FirstLastian economy, worth 379 trillion FirstLastian Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 168,870 FirstLastian Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 8.6 times as much as the poorest.

A firework a day does not in fact keep the doctor away, psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Beginend to meetings with foreign heads of state, dozens of viewers go online to hear whether a comma has been added to Clause 5 in Subsection B of Law 58375, and foreign militias and child smuggling rings will always love Beginend. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. FirstLast's national animal is the FirstLastian Raptor, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

FirstLast is ranked 13,922^nd in the world and 780^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 105 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.