The Powerhouse State of Fdryden is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Carla Higgins with an iron fist, and notable for its soft-spoken computers, smutty television, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 12.922 billion Fdrydenians 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 relatively small, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Burford. The average income tax rate is 95.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Fdrydenian economy, worth a remarkable 6,789 trillion Cactis 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 black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Book Publishing, 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 a breathtaking 525,424 Cactis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Brown Sugar 101 is a popular course at community colleges, handling people's data is proving an immersive experience, Fdrydenians are free from pain - but the side effects include loss of individual thought and freedom, and arthritic surgeons with tremulous fingers reassure patients that they are in safe hands. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Fdryden's national animal is the Walleye, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Fdryden is ranked 3,974^th in the world and 1^st in Union of Democrats for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 12,860.94 on the Gilded Widget Scale.