The Free Land of Frankastan is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, smutty television, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 976 million Frankastanians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, corrupt, outspoken government prioritizes Defense, with Industry, Spirituality, and Environment also on the agenda, while Welfare and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hannah. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Frankastanian economy, worth 103 trillion marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 106,380 marks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 413,770 per year while the poor average 18,700, a ratio of 22.1 to 1.

The new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass", the national colors help to make everyone look slimmer, citizens are required to report any and all incidents of prayer to their local Religious Affairs Officer, and private digital records now come with a convenient "download" button. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Frankastan's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Frankastan is ranked 158,466^th in the world and 16^th in Germany for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 1,158.71 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.