The Empire of Ferfulesse is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Glædwine Beasleye with an even hand, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.47 billion Ferfulesseans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The City of Fear. The average income tax rate is 52.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Ferfulessean economy, worth 214 trillion dollars a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 61,695 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Corporate lawyers are joyfully combing through the new tax code for any new loopholes for their clients, no one is quite sure what many government officials look like, the government loves seeing the little people fight, and wind farms are erected on shuttered oil platforms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ferfulesse's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ferfulesse is ranked 137,877^th in the world and 2,765^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 70.29 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.