The Kingdom of Firic Empire is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Lord Phinix with an iron fist, and notable for its compulsory military service, vat-grown people, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 22.394 billion Flamefolks are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry, Law & Order, and Education are also considered important, while Welfare and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Subteric. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 45.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Firic Empirean economy, worth a remarkable 7,687 trillion Firons a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 343,266 Firons, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,105,837 per year while the poor average 80,645, a ratio of 13.7 to 1.

It takes several hours to shuffle the national deck, apples shaped like baguettes have become a strange new food fad, governors and mayors are back to begging for allowances from the nanny state, and well-groomed vagrants are seen holding cardboard signs reading "please help -- 45 million Firons in debt". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Firic Empire's national animal is the Dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Fire Soul.

Firic Empire is ranked 2,855^th in the world and 6^th in The Black Hawks for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 7,427.06 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.