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The Republic of Favrisko is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Zach Zackerson with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.609 billion Favriskans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hugoswille. The average income tax rate is 72.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Favriskoan economy, worth 273 trillion Welkions a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 104,773 Welkions, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

In life full of care there is no time to stop and stare, the arms industry is strictly regulated, films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay, and libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Favrisko's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Favrisko is ranked 90,241^st in the world and 1,721^st in the Rejected Realms for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 3,369.36 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.