The Dominion of Frankstonia is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.728 billion Frankstonians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Frankston South. The average income tax rate is 93.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Frankstonian economy, worth 205 trillion Golden Beans 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 led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 118,820 Golden Beans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, white strait-jackets are the new orange jumpsuits, old folks reminisce about the last time someone was acquitted of a crime, and refugees from other nations are flocking to Frankstonia's border. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Frankstonia's national animal is the Beer Bottle Frog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Frankstonia is ranked 28,322^nd in the world and 32^nd in Karma for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,885.36 on the Gilded Widget Scale.