The Rogue Nation of Sewards Folly is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The compassionate, democratic population of 659 million Sewards Follyians 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fort Bering. The average income tax rate is 90.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Sewards Follyian economy, worth 66.8 trillion rationmarks 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 Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 101,414 rationmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Invasive species are hunted by the gendarmerie, children are brainwashed at a young age to accept "love and peace!" as a way of life, dubiously qualified East Lebatuckese doctors prescribe ice baths as a treatment for pneumonia, and the national guard is mobilized whenever a mother gets separated from her child at the mall. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sewards Folly's national animal is the sea urchin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Sewards Folly is ranked 188,158^th in the world and 18^th in Fallen Nations for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 164.54 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.