The Galactic Empire of Flarbinia is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Grand Emperor Vladimir Novgorod IV with an iron fist, and notable for its otherworldly petting zoo, avowedly heterosexual populace, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 27.529 billion Flarbinians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Deroth Ungol. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Flarbinian economy, worth an astonishing 18,476 trillion Shark'towels a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is a breathtaking 671,169 Shark'towels, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,453,620 per year while the poor average 130,226, a ratio of 18.8 to 1.

Citizens are bankrupted by injuries to cousins they've never met, the contraband cigarette trade is lighting up across Flarbinia, the nation's new religious police burn blasphemers on bonfires of their own books, and the military is blowing up any threat to employment within the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flarbinia's national animal is the Hellhound, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Church Of Crulmoxius.

Flarbinia is ranked 56,313^th in the world and 2,779^th in Lazarus for Most Authoritarian, with 1,645.01 milliStalins.