The Fourth French Empire of Upper Aralf Tarfugosh is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Emperor Napoleon V with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, complete lack of prisons, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.308 billion Frenchmen are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Paris. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 60.6%.

The all-consuming French economy, worth 270 trillion Francs a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Gambling, Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 117,352 Francs, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 338,401 per year while the poor average 32,306, a ratio of 10.5 to 1.

There's never a spare chair in the retirement home, the government is a law unto itself, school children across the country are staging hunger strikes to protest government-mandated salads, and workers can choose whether they prefer offices that smell of pungent body odor or whale vomit. Crime is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Upper Aralf Tarfugosh's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Upper Aralf Tarfugosh is ranked 120,303^rd in the world and 4^th in United Democratic World for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 1,694.91 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.