The Free Habitat of FaceEatingSlug is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by random particularly loud slugese with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, soft-spoken computers, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 1.71 billion Slugeses are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Environment, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Limax maximus. The average income tax rate is 95.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Slugese economy, worth 233 trillion Faces a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 136,695 Faces, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat, astronauts take one small step for FaceEatingSlug and one giant step backward from confrontation, teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank, and family isn't who you're born with but who you abandon in foreign countries. Crime is totally unknown. FaceEatingSlug's national animal is the Face-Eating Slug, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Spiral.

FaceEatingSlug is ranked 315,383^rd in the world and 275^th in Refugia for Most Patriotic, with 0.98 flags saluted per person per day.