The Republic of Formicaria is a tiny, socially progressive nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 8 million Formicarians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 73.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling Formicarian economy, worth 130 billion Ant-Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 16,303 Ant-Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, extreme political groups are outlawed, voting is voluntary, and weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Formicaria's national animal is the ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Formicaria is ranked 270,524^th in the world and 906^th in Talonia for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring -6.03 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.