The Protectorate of Flamekeeper 5 is a mammoth, genial nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 5.976 billion Flamekeepers enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 70.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Flamekeeper economy, worth 41.0 trillion Euros a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 6,858 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flamekeeper 5's national animal is the abandoned regions, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Flamekeeper 5 is ranked 314,587^th in the world and 2^nd in Front of Freedom for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 238.4 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.