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The Mafia Dictatorship of For Sque is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, ruled by Thunder with an iron fist, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, flagrant waste-dumping, and pith helmet sales. The hard-working, cynical population of 8.857 billion Squeans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 16.3%.

The frighteningly efficient For Squean economy, worth a remarkable 1,040 trillion Sques a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 117,484 Sques, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 522,674 per year while the poor average 16,439, a ratio of 31.8 to 1.

All the playground's a stage for For Squean schoolchildren, people reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight, space research funding has hit a recent high while several military bases are being closed down, and a faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. For Sque's national animal is the hawk, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

For Sque is ranked 276,234^th in the world and 196^th in Forest for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -7.87 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.