The Republic of Bearer of the Flames is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 2.372 billion Bearer of the Flamesians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 21.1%.

The strong Bearer of the Flamesian economy, worth 109 trillion baht a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 46,372 baht, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

Elderly prisoners with severe dementia are reminded hourly that they are evil people by helpful nurse-wardens, female newsreaders distract the nation by breastfeeding during broadcast, the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned, and Bearer of the Flames City's main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight. Crime is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force. Bearer of the Flames's national animal is the porpoise, which can occasionally be seen avoiding garbage in the nation's murky oceans.

Bearer of the Flames is ranked 165,525^th in the world and 1^st in Praesidium Potentiae for Largest Black Market, with 865 billion Standard Monetary Units.