The Free Land of The Fantastical is a mid-sized, cultured nation, renowned for its hatred of cheese, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 50 million Weirdos are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 72.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The imploded Fantastical economy, worth 403 billion Gold Coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is 8,064 Gold Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's war memorials are being torn down and replaced with peace gardens, it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, artists are pillars of society, and ranchers are adept at mimicking wolf attacks. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Fantastical's national animal is the Griffin, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

The Fantastical is ranked 141,053^rd in the world and 304^th in Horizon for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 77.14 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.