The Republic of Featured palace is a small, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 20 million Featured palaceans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 28.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Featured palacean economy, worth 884 billion bitcoins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 44,216 bitcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The internet has been placed under government control, evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right, the government helps teach children how to kill a man from six paces, and teenagers claim that morning paper rounds are performance art. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Featured palace's national animal is the giraffe, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Featured palace is ranked 247,213^th in the world and 11^th in New Western Empire for Most Developed, scoring 52.68 on the Human Development Index.