The Incorporated States of Ferkholt is a very large, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 254 million Ferkholtians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 22.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Ferkholtian economy, worth 27.3 trillion Exchange Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 107,575 Exchange Credits, with the richest citizens earning 9.3 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens partake in escapades with creatures of the night, no-one can foil the ambitions of Big Aluminium, politicians have seen a significant reduction in followers on their social media accounts, and transgender and agender are on the education agenda. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control. Ferkholt's national animal is the Ice Leviathan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Ferkholt is ranked 19,166^th in the world and 6^th in womp for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 5,167.86 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.