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The Dizzy Flying Saucers of Doom of Frisbeeteria is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Dr Aldo Farnsworth with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 48.293 billion Frisbees enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The minute, liberal, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Greenspan. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Frisish economy, worth a remarkable 7,664 trillion Tranyas a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Soda Sales industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 158,700 Tranyas, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 761,080 per year while the poor average 19,344, a ratio of 39.3 to 1.

The government is engaging in an agricultural trade war with Maxtopia, the government has certified several glow-in-the-dark athletes as drug free, foreigners with shady pasts are fleeing the country, and the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass". Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Frisbeeteria's national animal is the Shrieking Eel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Frisbeeterianism.

Frisbeeteria is ranked 222,440^th in the world and 1^st in Windows for Highest Poor Incomes, with 19,344.12 Standard Monetary Units.