The Community of Freeheart is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 285 million Freeheartians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Freeheart City. The average income tax rate is 72.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Freeheartian economy, worth 8.59 trillion Hearts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Tourism. Average income is 30,149 Hearts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nobody knows why the caged Crane sings, peace talks occasionally rack up a higher body count than the wars they seek to stop, lawyers spend as much time preparing their make-up as they do their briefs, and the government has spent days debating the merits of a petition calling for a ban on sporks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Freeheart's national animal is the Crane, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Freeheart is ranked 287,919^th in the world and 455^th in The Frontier Sea for Largest Populations, with 285 million capita.