The Holy Empire of Flicalkal is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, free-roaming dinosaurs, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 1.616 billion Flicalkalians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Industry, although Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare are also considered important, while Public Transport and International Aid aren't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 58.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Flicalkalian economy, worth 269 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 166,893 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

CSI Forest is this year's hit new crime show, former customs officers are adjusting to their new lives as market stall traders, electrocution deaths among computer technicians are at an all-time high, and nothing is beneath the government after it has extracted all the oil. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flicalkal's national animal is the phoenix, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Flicalkal is ranked 19,408^th in the world and 37^th in Concord for Highest Average Incomes, with 166,893.32 Standard Monetary Units.