The Technocratic Empire of Friaritat is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Empress Arachne II of Icesteel with an iron fist, and notable for its closed borders, strictly enforced bedtime, and labour-free parental leave. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 15.392 billion Friaritans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Iskaldhule. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Friaritan economy, worth a remarkable 4,056 trillion Rives a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 263,571 Rives, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every week is blindness awareness week, a common response to government PSAs is "well, DUH, obviously", the monarch frequently needs protecting from misfiring protection, and prime commercial land is being swamped with archaeological teams. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Friaritat's national animal is the Lethian whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Secular.

Friaritat is ranked 15,469^th in the world and 10^th in The Great Monarchical Nations for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 9,090.33 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.