The Federal Republic of Fran Advar is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by President Issac Carey with an even hand, and remarkable for its aversion to nipples, pith helmet sales, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, devout population of 8.745 billion Fran Advarians 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 Administration, Healthcare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port Bynald. The average income tax rate is 94.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Fran Advarian economy, worth a remarkable 1,173 trillion deniers a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 134,155 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Towns that stop turning a profit are turned into animal sanctuaries, President Issac Carey has been known to make speeches in fishing waders, this year's hottest fashion trend is the Lese Majeste collection, and defense lawyers suggestively note to juries how flagrantly happy victims were. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fran Advar's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Fran Advar is ranked 15,688^th in the world and 676^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 100 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.