The Free Land of Murder and Arson is a huge, socially progressive nation, ruled by Bob with a fair hand, and notable for its flagrant waste-dumping, complete lack of prisons, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 991 million Murder and Arsonians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Outhouse in the middle of nowhere. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 12.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Murder and Arsonian economy, worth 90.3 trillion Bottlecaps a year, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 91,113 Bottlecaps, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 422,321 per year while the poor average 11,836, a ratio of 35.7 to 1.

Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity, politicians are fired for opening subjective statements with "I believe", refugees from other nations are flocking to Murder and Arson's border, and Maxxmas is colloquially known as Zombie Day. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Murder and Arson's national animal is the emu, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Murder and Arson is ranked 75,000^th in the world and 4,961^st in Chicken overlords for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 3,829.6 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.