The Republic of Fauna is a mammoth, safe nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, state-planned economy, and frequent executions. The humorless population of 8.771 billion Faunans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 54.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Faunan economy, worth 406 trillion yen a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 46,372 yen, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Seasonal hay-fever sufferers are attending government drug counselling sessions to get free doughnuts, saying that someone looks a bit pale can be construed as hate speech, spoiler warnings are now given out before political speeches, and back-alley circumcision clinics are popping up all over the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fauna's national animal is the kirin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Fauna is ranked 277,796^th in the world and 3,344^th in Remembrance for Nicest Citizens, with 4.49 average smiles per day.