The Republic of Franners is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its flagrant waste-dumping, compulsory military service, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 478 million Frenning have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Houyeer. The average income tax rate is 29.3%.

The powerhouse Frennish economy, worth 44.7 trillion pircs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 93,608 pircs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens who plan overseas vacations are barred from running for political office, many are asking why the latest naval vessel is named after Saint Bartholomeus the Many Handed, commemorative mugs remembering last year's Black Friday Crockery Riots are a best seller this year, and Bigtopian interference in domestic elections is always democratically sanctioned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Franners's national animal is the hill goat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Franners is ranked 135,203^rd in the world and 1,961^st in the Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -44.72 on the Scary Big Number Scale.