The Republic of Fri Grats is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 8.478 billion Fri Gratsians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 13.0%.

The very strong Fri Gratsian economy, worth 444 trillion guilders a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Basket Weaving, and Information Technology. Average income is 52,395 guilders, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 219,422 per year while the poor average 8,146, a ratio of 26.9 to 1.

Students and teachers are regularly stopped and searched for symbols of religious affiliation before class, careless Maxémon Trainers have been the cause of numerous search and rescue operations, money can't buy happiness but it can buy immunity to prosecution, and soldiers on first dates introduce themselves only by their ranks and serial numbers. Crime is a problem. Fri Grats's national animal is the turtle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Fri Grats is ranked 247,992^nd in the world and 27^th in The DankLeft Commune for Lowest Crime Rates, with 52.61 law-abiding acts per hour.