The Empire of The Freddom is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, digital currency, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 202 million Freddo enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 47.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Freddo economy, worth 6.90 trillion Zennies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Gambling, Pizza Delivery, Furniture Restoration, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 34,147 Zennies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Biology and religious education classes have recently been merged, parents dread their examinations more than their children, many marriages go virtually unconsummated, and the nationalised Arms Manufacturing Industry is not interested in making weapons. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Freddom's national animal is the Rat zodiac, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Freddom is ranked 293,811^th in the world and 1^st in Jigoku Tengoku for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -7.75 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.