The Republic of The foudre is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its flagrant waste-dumping, digital currency, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 420 million foudreans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 17.8%.

The all-consuming foudrean economy, worth 44.7 trillion gallons a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 106,351 gallons, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 513,095 per year while the poor average 12,816, a ratio of 40.0 to 1.

Death row inmates cower in fear at the phrase "one-year anniversary", citizens are prohibited from raising their voice above thirty decibels in commercial districts, the nation is loathed abroad for dumping all of its waste in international waters, and the country is littered with broken homes. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. The foudre's national animal is the yeast, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The foudre is ranked 72,682^nd in the world and 2^nd in Grand Coalition Control Room for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 3,666.02 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.