The Free Land of Frankino is a large, genial nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 98 million Frankinoans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 48.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Frankinoan economy, worth 3.74 trillion Frankinetas 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 a slick, highly efficient black market in Automobile Manufacturing, Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Uranium Mining. 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 38,112 Frankinetas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's counterintelligence budget is all up in the air, it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven, the government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping, and literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Frankino's national animal is the Lynx.

Frankino is ranked 215,501^st in the world and 3,908^th in The East Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4.84 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.