The Faithful Gathering of Filbustan is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Filbus with an iron fist, and renowned for its frequent executions, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 4.687 billion Filbus Acolytes 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 large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Filbus City. The average income tax rate is 93.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Filbustanian economy, worth 687 trillion chairs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 146,628 chairs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Skateboarding is considered a form of diplomacy, scrapyards are filled with Filbus's face, road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans, and news headlines usually include p-values. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Filbustan's national animal is the bee, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Filbism.

Filbustan is ranked 299,910^th in the world and 4,357^th in The North Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -13 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.