The Democratic Republic of Fylkjer is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Rouven Van Gerhadsdorf with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, frequent executions, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, cynical population of 3.997 billion Fylkjaners are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ebenfurt. The average income tax rate is 85.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Fylkjerian economy, worth 429 trillion Fylkjer Frankens a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 107,553 Fylkjer Frankens, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Military barracks resemble five-star hotels, everyone apparently sends Rouven Van Gerhadsdorf hair-filled lockets, offers to die heroically, and poetic desires to co-parent a child, community organizers have given up going door to door because nobody is home, and politicians constantly ring their voters to remind them how good a job they're doing. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fylkjer's national animal is the Geese, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Fylkjer is ranked 20,268^th in the world and 1^st in Holy Utopian Empire for Most Patriotic, with 47.1 flags saluted per person per day.