The Kingdom of Friara is a mid-sized, cultured nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, frequent executions, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 68 million Friarans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 13.3%.

The very strong Friaran economy, worth 4.20 trillion frärs a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 61,764 frärs, with the richest citizens earning 9.6 times as much as the poorest.

Stores employing more than 100 employees are required to be at least twenty miles from any competitor, over a third of the seats in sports stadiums have been removed to make room for female-only commodes, breast milk is being redistributed from each according to their ability to each according to their need, and anyone with a tin cup can stop by the welfare office to have it filled with coins. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a capable police force. Friara's national animal is the schweinhund, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Friara is ranked 123,648^th in the world and 623^rd in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring 1,410.5 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.