The Holy Federation of New Fernia is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Jeb Bush with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, smutty television, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.126 billion New Fernians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ferncliffe. The average income tax rate is 90.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming New Fernian economy, worth a remarkable 1,198 trillion pounds a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 131,296 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Jaywalking is punishable by public flogging, the steaks are too high for ambassadors to butcher foreign relationships, the thought of funding space programs drives Jeb Bush crazy, and politicians are fired for opening subjective statements with "I believe". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. New Fernia's national animal is the mountain dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Fennism.

New Fernia is ranked 6,700^th in the world and 24^th in the Plains of Perdition for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 7,130.39 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.