The Democratic States of FRONTAN is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, ubiquitous missile silos, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 544 million FRONTANians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed, including voting. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 64.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse FRONTANian economy, worth 42.2 trillion deniers a year, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 77,569 deniers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Bands of paramedics walk the streets looking for suspicious medical activity, the seventh son of a seventh son is fated to be a millionaire, kids showing an interest in reptiles are given government-funded cobras, and drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. FRONTAN's national animal is the falcon.

FRONTAN is ranked 64,717^th in the world and 2^nd in One Power for Most Corrupt Governments, with 34.96 kickbacks per hour.