The Republic of Flame Trooper 20 is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, lack of airports, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed population of 1.536 billion Flame Trooper 20ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 33.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Flame Trooper 20ian economy, worth 58.0 trillion Credits a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Cheese Exports, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 37,777 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Homeowners on prime real estate have been seen dodging giant bulldozers with cartoon characters painted on them, blind students are at a disadvantage now that test papers printed in braille have been discontinued, scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied Droid, and morale within the seismologist community has hit rock bottom. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flame Trooper 20's national animal is the Droid, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Flame Trooper 20 is ranked 202,976^th in the world and 4,932^nd in eta for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -4 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.