The Free Land of Fiparatus is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Otto Von Skorzeny with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, pith helmet sales, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 8.92 billion Fiparatusians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Execopolis. The average income tax rate is 82.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Fiparatusian economy, worth a remarkable 1,201 trillion marxes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 134,675 marxes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The "temporary replacement bus service" is now a permanent fixture, psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Otto Von Skorzeny to meetings with foreign heads of state, Otto Von Skorzeny's peyote-induced "let's all just be friends" speech is trending world-wide, and ignorance is considered a politically desirable quality. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fiparatus's national animal is the desert fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Religious Liberty.

Fiparatus is ranked 247,076^th in the world and 145^th in The Order of the Grey Wardens for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 3,880.2 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.