The Empire of Free Turtle is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Bob Turtle with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, devout population of 4.499 billion Free Turtleans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Turtle. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Free Turtlean economy, worth a remarkable 1,225 trillion turtles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 272,404 turtles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sex changes are routinely performed at Free Turtle's hospitals, bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, bizarre-looking creatures called 'turtledogs' dominate wildlife preserves, and pro-democracy regime change has been avoided. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Free Turtle's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Turtleism.

Free Turtle is ranked 11,475^th in the world and 1^st in RealTacoMan Frontier for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 39,887.23 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.