The Empire of Falsphin is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 220 million Falsphinians 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 56.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Falsphinian economy, worth 15.3 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 69,449 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Lottery winners spend most of their money on security, ministers browse Alright! magazine for fashion tips, the demands of climate protestors are measured in spray-paint can sales, and the navy's new flotilla is gonna be a thrilla. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Falsphin's national animal is the horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Falsphin is ranked 76,896^th in the world and 135^th in Starlight for Most Developed, scoring 67.48 on the Human Development Index.