The Federal Republic of Fallgriffin is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Maj Gen Greogory Twilight with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, sprawling nuclear power plants, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 22.96 billion Fallgriffinians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The tiny, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry, Education, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Welfare and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of South NorthWest East Lawndale. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Fallgriffinian economy, worth a remarkable 9,767 trillion chromium kaegyds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 425,424 chromium kaegyds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,283,949 per year while the poor average 109,824, a ratio of 11.7 to 1.

Children are often observed making 'sand angels' in bunkers, crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing, a National Academy regulates grammar and usage, and the "boy who cried wolf" policy makes sick people reluctant to call an ambulance. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Fallgriffin's national animal is the Ferret, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Maj Gen Gregory Twilight warship.

Fallgriffin is ranked 9,575^th in the world and 152^nd in the West Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 102.04 law-abiding acts per hour.