The Republic of Fries 1 is a mammoth, safe nation, remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, soft-spoken computers, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 5.876 billion Fries 1ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 76.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Fries 1ian economy, worth 685 trillion Frieses 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 116,648 Frieses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens simply have to point a weapon at a government official to get what they want, government popup ads are springing up like weeds, legend has it Leader's shower singing echoes through the halls of government, and power to the people comes from the barrel of a gun. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fries 1's national animal is the Potato, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Fries 1 is ranked 293,482^nd in the world and 4,240^th in The North Pacific for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring -7.9 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.