The Federal Democratic Republic of Furecia is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Mr Gran Marchenko with an even hand, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, smutty television, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 8.509 billion Furecians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The tiny, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ursula city. The average income tax rate is 4.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Furecian economy, worth a remarkable 1,245 trillion Furecs 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 146,421 Furecs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It's often raining men (hallelujah) in Ursula city, X-Files ratings have hit an all-time low, people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, and television characters who ask how someone's doing are charged with harassment. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Furecia's national animal is the Pariah Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Furecia is ranked 2,144^th in the world and 1^st in Mauravia for Most Cultured, scoring 257 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.