The Community of Fae Clans is a large, socially progressive nation, renowned for its closed borders, museums and concert halls, and ban on automobiles. The cynical, devout population of 119 million Fae are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 72.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Fae economy, worth 2.43 trillion trinkets 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 Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Soda Sales and Book Publishing. Average income is 20,457 trinkets, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Fae Clans Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon', noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law, the constant playing of Merry Birthday on Fae radio has led to calls for the song to be classified as a crime against humanity, and aeroplanes have been converted into housing units after all air travel was outlawed. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fae Clans's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Fae Clans is ranked 15,996^th in the world and 1^st in Deepwoods for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 7,071.64 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.