The Faithful Gathering of Filbustan is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Filbus with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, sprawling nuclear power plants, and public floggings. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 833 million Filbus Acolytes are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Filbus City. The average income tax rate is 60.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Filbustanian economy, worth 48.9 trillion chairs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 58,648 chairs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, newlywed misogynists complain about their wives keeping their maiden names, the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster, and all mothers are allowed six months fully-paid maternity leave. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Filbustan's national animal is the bee, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Filbustan is ranked 100,161^st in the world and 1,694^th in The North Pacific for Most Extreme, scoring 23.62 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.