The Glorious Empire of Ferengi Alliance Union is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Grand Nagus with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 11.019 billion Ferengis are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order, Industry, and Spirituality are also considered important, while Environment and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ferenginar. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 74.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Ferengi economy, worth a remarkable 5,684 trillion Gold Pressed Latinums a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is a breathtaking 515,892 Gold Pressed Latinums, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,742,915 per year while the poor average 5,790, a ratio of 819 to 1.

When flight control tells pilots to alter course the usual reply is "No, YOU move!", amorous nobles always bring the same disappointing gift to weddings, the government terminates employment with extreme prejudice, and theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ferengi Alliance Union's national animal is the Latinum Goat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Divine Treasury.

Ferengi Alliance Union is ranked 4,885^th in the world and 1^st in Shadow Realms for Lowest Crime Rates, with 117.01 law-abiding acts per hour.