The Commonwealth of Ferristia is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Mo Spinoza with a fair hand, and notable for its daily referendums, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.957 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 512 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 103,469 Millipenses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens have to stick a fork into an electrical outlet to get a buzz, small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome, authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets, and the nation's politicians are known more for the internet memes they spawn than any of their accomplishments. 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 288,432^nd in the world and 5,393^rd in the South Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -20.33 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.