The Always Changing Shapes of Feux is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Debussy with an iron fist, and renowned for its disturbing lack of elderly people, conspicuous electricity pylons, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 17.216 billion Comrades are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Adytus. The average income tax rate is 99.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Feuxian economy, worth a remarkable 9,009 trillion Francoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is a breathtaking 523,298 Francoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cremation is compulsory for the deceased, bombs make good ploughs, the national arsenal is full of sound and fury signifying nothing, and "What's the Frequency, Debussy?" is a favorite phrase of backyard radio broadcasters when interrupting official diplomatic channels. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Feux's national animal is the Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Axiotarism.

Feux is ranked 24,903^rd in the world and 1,110^th in Lazarus for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 276.56 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.