The Commonwealth of Fries 4 is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, frequent executions, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.332 billion Fries 4ians, 1.268 billion of whom are zombies, are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 14.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Fries 4ian economy, worth 879 trillion Frieses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Soda Sales, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 163,332 Frieses, with the richest citizens earning 6.7 times as much as the poorest.

Forgotten trend connoisseurs turn their nose at one wrinkle, autarky's deemed malarkey as foreign bric-a-brac's brought back, fur coats have become the latest fashion trend, and the government is full of rats. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Fries 4's national animal is the Potato, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Fries 4 is ranked 298,660^th in the world and 4,436^th in The North Pacific for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -10.95 on the Clooney Contribution Index.