The Matriarchy of FPC018 is a mammoth, efficient nation, remarkable for its closed borders, barren, inhospitable landscape, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.554 billion FPC018ians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 74.5%.

The frighteningly efficient FPC018ian economy, worth 652 trillion guilders a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Basket Weaving, Retail, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 117,395 guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Being impolite in public is punishable by heavy fines, finders keepers is the law of the land, the family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year, and the well-off can quite literally buy extra votes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. FPC018's national animal is the kangaroo, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

FPC018 is ranked 26,592^nd in the world and 10^th in Golden Acres for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 74.47 Effective Tax Rate.