The Always Changing Shapes of Feux is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Debussy with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory vegetarianism, fear of technology, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 17.222 billion Comrades are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Adytus. The average income tax rate is 99.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Feuxian economy, worth a remarkable 9,021 trillion Francoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is a breathtaking 523,851 Francoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bombs make good ploughs, the national arsenal is full of sound and fury signifying nothing, "What's the Frequency, Debussy?" is a favorite phrase of backyard radio broadcasters when interrupting official diplomatic channels, and the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Feux's national animal is the Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Axiotarism.

Feux is ranked 23,531^st in the world and 905^th in Lazarus for Largest Populations, with 17.2 billion capita.