The Holy Federation of New Fernia is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Jeb Bush with an iron fist, and notable for its strictly enforced bedtime, smutty television, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.27 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 90.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming New Fernian economy, worth a remarkable 1,245 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 134,387 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's a lot of hot air coming from the Capitol Building, vanity is the constant enemy of dignity, the most commonly-worn shoes are concrete ones, and children fear compulsory visits to their spiritual advisors more than the dentist. 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 34,478^th in the world and 131^st in the Plains of Perdition for Highest Average Incomes, with 134,387.89 Standard Monetary Units.