The Democratic Island Federation of Frieden-und Freudenland is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by The Revolutionary Front with a fair hand, and remarkable for its parental licensing program, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 17.868 billion Frieden-und Freudenlandians 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Civitas Pacis. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Frieden-und Freudenlandian economy, worth a remarkable 4,477 trillion Pinkponks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 250,599 Pinkponks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A flying elephant and The Revolutionary Front share the same nickname, minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home, any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property, and third world countries are rich in "I Love Civitas Pacis" t-shirts. Crime is totally unknown. Frieden-und Freudenland's national animal is the Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Frieden-und Freudenland is ranked 2,455^th in the world and 23^rd in Forest for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 753.57 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.