The Commonwealth of Ferristia is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Mo Spinoza with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, free-roaming dinosaurs, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.987 billion Ferristians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Archigo City. The average income tax rate is 93.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Ferristian economy, worth 516 trillion Millipenses 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 103,532 Millipenses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets, the nation's politicians are known more for the internet memes they spawn than any of their accomplishments, no one is quite sure what many government officials look like, and trains and passengers alike are often late. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ferristia's national animal is the Octopus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Ferristia is ranked 9,717^th in the world and 271^st in the South Pacific for Highest Food Quality, scoring 162.69 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.