The Faithful Gathering of Filbustan is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Filbus with an iron fist, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, rampant corporate plagiarism, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 4.754 billion 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, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Filbus City. The average income tax rate is 93.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Filbustanian economy, worth 700 trillion chairs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 147,327 chairs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain, truncheon-mounted cameras record the beating of criminals in dynamic HD detail, pranking is an art form, and foreign nations kill migratory animals at random in the hope that Filbustan will pay them to stop. 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, and its national religion is Filbism.

Filbustan is ranked 3,161^st in the world and 149^th in The North Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 57.95 average smiles per day.