The Federation of Greater Fennovia is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by The Council with an even hand, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 1.169 billion Fennovians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Ark. The average income tax rate is 87.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Fennovian economy, worth 128 trillion gold bars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 109,785 gold bars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, the Finance Ministry posts hourly updates on where taxpayer money is spent, and ministers browse Alright! magazine for fashion tips. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Greater Fennovia's national animal is the Barracuda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Greater Fennovia is ranked 28,279^th in the world and 555^th in the South Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,889.45 on the Gilded Widget Scale.