The Grand Duchy of Forearza is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, avant-garde cinema, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 631 million Forearzans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Industry is 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 Blackstone. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Forearzan economy, worth 89.4 trillion Ducats a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Information Technology. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 141,611 Ducats, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 760,337 per year while the poor average 13,761, a ratio of 55.2 to 1.

Parking's carefree without parking car fees, street preachers sell salvation with a side order of shame on every corner, hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", and open-casket funerals are avoided at all cost. Crime is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Forearza's national animal is the leopard, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Forearza is ranked 292,870^th in the world and 5,586^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 4.86 law-abiding acts per hour.