The Federation of The Backyard fence is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, restrictive gun laws, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 241 million Backyard fenceans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 30.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Backyard fencean economy, worth 13.7 trillion Meths a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 56,833 Meths, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

The needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead, children's bedrooms are often decorated with posters of successful accountants, no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed, and Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to The Backyard fence City to enjoy their national art. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Backyard fence's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Backyard fence is ranked 261,532^nd in the world and 3,244^th in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -8.26 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.