The Commonwealth of Ferristia is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Mo Spinoza with an even hand, and remarkable for its digital currency, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 6.454 billion Ferristians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Archigo City. The average income tax rate is 95.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Ferristian economy, worth 752 trillion Millipenses a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 116,570 Millipenses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Digital novelty coins make for surprising vanguards of the revolution, the government has legalised small-scale capitalism, postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, and turnstile jumpers grow up to be tax cheats. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ferristia's national animal is the Octopus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Ferristia is ranked 327,624^th in the world and 4,803^rd in the South Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -17.72 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.