The Republic of Flame Trooper 5 is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles. The devout population of 1.52 billion Flame Trooper 5ians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 46.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Flame Trooper 5ian economy, worth 60.9 trillion Credits a year, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 40,081 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists, lobbyists are trying to convince government to recategorize most natural disasters as "non-critical naturogenic inconveniences", Flame Trooper 5 City University is said to be the modern-day Tower of Babel, and ministers are now allowed to put suggestions in the governmental suggestion box. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flame Trooper 5's national animal is the Droid, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Flame Trooper 5 is ranked 135,093^rd in the world and 3^rd in Mechanix Monarchists for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 2,401.36 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.