The Hellscape of The FreeBird is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Roid Rogers with an even hand, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, ubiquitous missile silos, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 3.05 billion Gamblas are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The House. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Gambling economy, worth 636 trillion Chips a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 208,845 Chips, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,703,870 per year while the poor average 5,541, a ratio of 307 to 1.

Elderly tribespeople die in bed surrounded by loved ones and linguists, the new 'Things We Stole From Other Countries' exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities is a hit, the comic book series 'Roid Rogers and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller, and financial investors are noting a boom in artillery. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The FreeBird's national animal is the Trolley, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Doublism.

The FreeBird is ranked 92,255^th in the world and 14^th in The Outskirts for Most Developed, scoring 63.44 on the Human Development Index.