The Sleeping City of Fractethyst is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sunset with an even hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 4.987 billion Fractals enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rheasilvia. The average income tax rate is 70.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Fractal economy, worth 859 trillion Pearls a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 172,291 Pearls, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Nihilistic thrill-seekers claim that suicide by roller coaster is the ultimate life experience, strict term limits have been applied to all elected offices, the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas, and census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Fractethyst's national animal is the Grey Catbird, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Ascension.

Fractethyst is ranked 292,016^th in the world and 821^st in 10000 Islands for Lowest Crime Rates, with 11.79 law-abiding acts per hour.