The State of Feader-Hope is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 25.139 billion Feader-Hopeans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 73.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Feader-Hopean economy, worth 946 trillion betales 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 Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Average income is 37,632 betales, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

A large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, the government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector, foreigners are treated with great suspicion, and the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Feader-Hope's national animal is the deer, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Feader-Hope is ranked 93,434^th in the world and 1^st in Cotonou for Lowest Crime Rates, with 66.7 law-abiding acts per hour.