The Colony of Ferranghia Advanced Industry is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Mistress with an iron fist, and renowned for its prohibition of alcohol, compulsory military service, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 13.167 billion Human material are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of MachineCapital. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 71.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Human material economy, worth a remarkable 2,837 trillion Ferrs a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Uranium Mining, Gambling, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 215,481 Ferrs, with the richest citizens earning 6.6 times as much as the poorest.

Teenage male videogamers often suffer repetitive strain wrist injuries, unpopular scientists are shunned by name, plain-clothes police officers follow Dàguó tourists everywhere they go, and banned objects are regularly legalized if they've been successfully stolen from the government. Crime is all-pervasive. Ferranghia Advanced Industry's national animal is the Test subject, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is The Qbit Qult.

Ferranghia Advanced Industry is ranked 33,407^th in the world and 473^rd in Europe for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 1,774.93 on the Societal Mobility Rating.