The DemocraticSocialistRepublic of Fadnesia is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Prime Socialist Frakk with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, soft-spoken computers, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 8.404 billion Faddies enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brod'cester. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Fadnesian economy, worth a remarkable 1,644 trillion planets a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 195,644 planets, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tax revenue is often intercepted by international accountants before ever seeing the national treasury, the ruling party has a devil of a time keeping order in the ranks, funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience, and violently opinionated speakers can be heard preaching their hateful views on every street corner. Crime is totally unknown. Fadnesia's national animal is the Smurgelbuff, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Hemmulism.

Fadnesia is ranked 309,281^st in the world and 209^th in Refugia for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -21.59 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.