The Empire of Fairat is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The quiet, industrious population of 1.388 billion Fairatians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Fairatian economy, worth 50.3 trillion Hailats 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 led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 36,210 Hailats, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

You can call your arthritic immigrant neighbour for all your roof-tiling and guttering needs, Leader has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw, politicians cheer the nation's surging death rate, and all alcohol is banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fairat's national animal is the Ghaznar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Fairat is ranked 52,604^th in the world and 259^th in the Outback for Most Cultured, scoring 71 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.