The Democratic Republic of Fengle is a massive, orderly nation, notable for its state-planned economy, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.184 billion Fengleans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Xijing. The average income tax rate is 73.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Fenglean economy, worth 214 trillion dollars 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Retail. 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 an impressive 181,536 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fur coats have become the latest fashion trend, some magnifier-wielding Fengleans say Leader seems a little lacking in something, retiring citizens are dragged away in the middle of the night by mysterious men in black suits, and the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fengle's national animal is the squirrel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Fengle is ranked 112,135^th in the world and 231^st in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 2,738.13 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.