The State of Firebrats is a colossal, orderly nation, notable for its state-planned economy, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 8.547 billion Firebratsians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District City. The average income tax rate is 71.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Firebratsian economy, worth 61.0 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery and Tourism. Average income is 7,139 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's official head of religious affairs is an atheist, gambling is outlawed, fans doing the wave routinely disrupt the finals of Go tournaments, and Firebrats has designated District City as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Firebrats's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Firebrats is ranked 286,132^nd in the world and 1^st in Greater Bugaria for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -11.18 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.