The Community of The Free Press is a very large, socially progressive nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 264 million Free Press Reporters are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Written Word City. The average income tax rate is 71.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Free Press Reporter economy, worth 13.0 trillion Press-Chains 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 49,162 Press-Chains, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

An aboriginal talking stick is used for leaders' debates at election time, the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies, signs at the border tell international drivers where they can put their cars, and signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Free Press's national animal is the Owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

The Free Press is ranked 239,821^st in the world and 3,207^th in the South Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -3.28 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.