The Returned Nation of Big Fard is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by The Countess of Shiding with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, pith helmet sales, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.159 billion Farders are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Administration, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shiding. The average income tax rate is 25.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Big Fardian economy, worth 160 trillion Ouroborons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Soda Sales, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 74,283 Ouroborons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Heavily-armed commandos play rock-paper-scissors over whether to execute criminals and foreign visitors, Big Fard is notorious for its citizens' infidelity, no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed, and hunters have been known to lose limbs while attempting to 'play tag' with their prey. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Big Fard's national animal is the ophan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is The Brapp.

Big Fard is ranked 169,009^th in the world and 23^rd in Heart for Lowest Crime Rates, with 59.39 law-abiding acts per hour.