The Allied States of Finkaar is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, avant-garde cinema, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.658 billion Finkaarians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 72.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Finkaarian economy, worth 166 trillion guilders a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 100,252 guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.9 times as much as the poorest.

The Holy Office of the Inquisition is the highest court in the land, news editors who eschew the state-approved superlatives for describing Leader tend to disappear, banks now use correct pronouns when evicting people from their houses, and many politicians are in rehab for minor drug offenses. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Finkaar's national animal is the penguin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Finkaar is ranked 287,706^th in the world and 1,032^nd in Concord for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8.02 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.