The Gamblecore Urban Hellscape of The Front Range is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Minerva Potemkin with an even hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, free-roaming dinosaurs, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 9.296 billion Front Rangers are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Golden. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Front Ranger economy, worth a remarkable 2,320 trillion wampums a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Gambling. Average income is an amazing 249,630 wampums, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,279,439 per year while the poor average 3,007, a ratio of 757 to 1.

Praying at the office can see you terminated for napping, politicians' smiles are legally considered a form of disaster relief, farm turkeys are given high doses of antidepressants to take their minds off the holiday season, and it's been a banner year for local vexillology. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The Front Range's national animal is the coyote, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

The Front Range is ranked 330,234^th in the world and 4,160^th in the South Pacific for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring -19.24 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.