The United States of FirePheonix is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by The Ten Scholars with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 1.83 billion FirePheonixians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Intelligentsia. The average income tax rate is 49.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient FirePheonixian economy, worth 379 trillion bells a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an amazing 207,116 bells, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The FirePheonixian Babysitters Club has proven to be a huge relief to stressed-out parents across the nation, chrome-clad space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on, public executions just aren't the cheery spectacles they once were, and the mob vote is a crucial electoral demographic. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. FirePheonix's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is mongadace.

FirePheonix is ranked 135,794^th in the world and 113^th in The League for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 1,868.07 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.