The Desert Town of Furnace Creek is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Devon Mathis with an even hand, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, lack of airports, and avant-garde cinema. The compassionate, cheerful population of 15.26 billion Furnace Creekians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Oasis At Death Valley. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Furnace Creekian economy, worth a remarkable 2,982 trillion dollars 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 significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 195,444 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Child adoption by homosexual couples has been outlawed, nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère, and school lockers are filled with fancy underwear. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Furnace Creek's national animal is the desert tortoise, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Death Valley.

Furnace Creek is ranked 288,958^th in the world and 6^th in Death Valley for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 3,322.56 Standard Monetary Units.