The Animals of Farthing Wood is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its soft-spoken computers, zero percent divorce rate, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, devout population of 14.772 billion Farthing Woodians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 43.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Farthing Woodian economy, worth 908 trillion silvers 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 slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 61,487 silvers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

'I'm Coming Out' has shot to the top of the nation's music charts, diplomats shake hands with their right and hide a poison dagger in their left, recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable, and innocent people are routinely stoned to death by frenzied lynch mobs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Farthing Wood's national animal is the fox.

Farthing Wood is ranked 267,236^th in the world and 97^th in Middle Earth for Highest Food Quality, scoring 6.91 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.