The Empire of Farret Island is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, democratic population of 391 million Farret Islandians enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fuzan. The average income tax rate is 71.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Farret Islandian economy, worth 20.8 trillion Farrons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 53,138 Farrons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight, theatre audiences often need a telescope to see the stage, male politicians lose their jobs for staring too long at their female counterparts, and foreign musicians that Leader dislikes are turned away at the border. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Farret Island's national animal is the Farret, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Farret Island is ranked 44,478^th in the world and 82^nd in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 4,797.59 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.