The Federal Democratic Republic of Furecia is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Mr Gran Marchenko with an even hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, smutty television, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 8.543 billion Furecians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The tiny, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ursula city. The average income tax rate is 4.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Furecian economy, worth a remarkable 1,270 trillion Furecs 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 148,665 Furecs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, anti-government web sites are springing up, liberals and conservatives try to disqualify each other's candidates on the grounds that "their ideas would never work in the real world", and Mr Gran Marchenko's new door-knocking campaign has the sweet taste of success. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Furecia's national animal is the Pariah Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Furecia is ranked 4,778^th in the world and 1^st in Mauravia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 573.87 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.