The Community of FanTube is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 863 million FanTube Shippers love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Test Tube's Secret Laboratory. The average income tax rate is 69.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong a FanTube Shipper economy, worth 61.8 trillion HOOTS a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 71,619 HOOTS, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's soldiers sleep four to a bed in order to use space economically, the general public only knows their favorite politician's first name, elections are won by the candidate who makes the best 'yo mama' jokes, and lawyers spend as much time preparing their make-up as they do their briefs. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. FanTube's national animal is the Steve Cobs, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

FanTube is ranked 252,959^th in the world and 516^th in Horizon for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 3,628.77 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.