The Holy Federation of New Fernia is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Jeb Bush with an iron fist, and remarkable for its triple-decker prams, state-planned economy, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.223 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 90.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming New Fernian economy, worth a remarkable 1,232 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 133,623 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A signed affidavit from a prominent anti-corruption advocate declares that she is in fact a crook after all, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, toast never burns but always has a weird chemical taste, and there's a lot of hot air coming from the Capitol Building. 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 323,467^th in the world and 1,688^th in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -12.85 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.