The Federal People's Republic of Fadnesia is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Prime Socialist Frakk with a fair hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, sprawling nuclear power plants, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 8.608 billion Faddies are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brod'cester. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Fadnesian economy, worth a remarkable 1,706 trillion planets a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 198,257 planets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The military has had its funding stripped back as the nation seeks a smaller role in international politics, political satirists and late night comedians weep as the government begins cleaning up its act, the nation claims that shipments labeled TNT stand for Treaty Negotiation Tools, and worried-looking neonatal nurses are being deployed in place of SWAT teams during dangerous drug busts. Crime is totally unknown. Fadnesia's national animal is the Smurgelbuff, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Hemmulism.

Fadnesia is ranked 4,122^nd in the world and 27^th in Refugia for Smartest Citizens, with 143.45 quips per hour.