The Association of Free Collectives is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Speaker Andreas with a fair hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, complete lack of prisons, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.973 billion Freelancers are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arkadia. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Freelancer economy, worth a remarkable 1,051 trillion Communal Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an amazing 211,535 Communal Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The roads are notorious throughout the region for their peril, mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field, a favorite "life hack" for gap year backpackers is to pretend to be homeless for government handouts, and male cubicle workers stand up every time a woman enters the room. Crime is totally unknown. Free Collectives's national animal is the Honey Badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Free Collectives is ranked 4,350^th in the world and 91^st in The Communist Bloc for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2,514.57 pounds of wildlife per square mile.