The Always Changing Shapes of Feux is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Debussy with an iron fist, and renowned for its triple-decker prams, zero percent divorce rate, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 16.794 billion Comrades 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 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 99.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Feuxian economy, worth a remarkable 8,633 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 514,081 Francoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government single-handedly sustains the bunk bed market, escargots have lost their charm ever since they started to be called 'cooked land snails', citizens worry more about a split end than their deceased parent, and small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome. 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 2,053^rd in the world and 50^th in Lazarus for Most Corrupt Governments, with 437.39 kickbacks per hour.