The DemocraticSocialistRepublic of Fadnesia is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Prime Socialist Frakk with a fair hand, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, otherworldly petting zoo, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 8.456 billion Faddies enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brod'cester. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Fadnesian economy, worth a remarkable 1,661 trillion planets a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 196,530 planets, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Posters on 'Fadnesian Values' advise against being proud of Fadnesia, holidaymakers sleep curled up on the floor as hotel beds are replaced with oversized bookcases, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, and the government is proudly free of crabs. Crime is totally unknown. Fadnesia's national animal is the Smurgelbuff, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Hemmulism.

Fadnesia is ranked 324,312^th in the world and 193^rd in Refugia for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -13.2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.