The MESSENGER OF KARL FARTZ of Fartmaster Q is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Priest Quntein F Wallbanger with an even hand, and renowned for its disturbing lack of elderly people, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-working population of 9.84 billion FARTISTS 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ULTRA MEGA FART CITY ONE. The average income tax rate is 70.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Fartmaster Qian economy, worth a remarkable 1,055 trillion Fart Gold Coins a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 107,285 Fart Gold Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work, kindhearted FARTISTS generously pay taxes for citizens of other countries, the Fartmaster Qian Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances, and the government seizes all major gold finds. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fartmaster Q's national animal is the Wild Farting Ass, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Holy Order of FARTISM.

Fartmaster Q is ranked 95,324^th in the world and 1^st in The Realm Of Farts for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 2,109.54 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.