The Green Regency of Ferrianona is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by This Velvet Glove with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, ban on automobiles, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, cheerful population of 30.242 billion Ferrianonans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cithog. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Ferrianonan economy, worth an astonishing 15,277 trillion Gold Farthings 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is a breathtaking 505,159 Gold Farthings, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Small patches of desolate land across the world are part of Ferrianonan sovereign territory, to say that military robots are inclined towards violence is offensive, Ferrianonan tourists are encouraged to hand out spare condoms to locals while on vacation, and the comic book series 'This Velvet Glove and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ferrianona's national animal is the Nox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Deism.

Ferrianona is ranked 264^th in the world and 1^st in Laissez Faireholm for Nicest Citizens, with 167.24 average smiles per day.