The Empire of Felix Mann is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Bobby Fisher with an iron fist, and remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, ban on automobiles, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 15.73 billion Felix Mannians 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 enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Malta. The average income tax rate is 97.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Felix Mannian economy, worth a remarkable 4,159 trillion pesos a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Retail, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 264,442 pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Immigrants who carry knives on them are presumed to be chefs, all government communication requires the imprimatur of the Truth Police, tuba players are paid to quietly whisper into their instruments, and grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Felix Mann's national animal is the horse, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Chess.

Felix Mann is ranked 258,425^th in the world and 195^th in Kantrias for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -8 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.