The Avant-Garde Republic of Feume is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Alceste De Ambris with a fair hand, and notable for its smutty television, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.578 billion Feumeans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rijeka. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Feumean economy, worth 624 trillion euros 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 174,493 euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Keeping the lights on keeps the lights on for increasing amounts of Feumeans, optometrists will see citizens in seconds but health inspectors won't be sighted for years, the government funds large training centres to turn snakes into functioning members of society, and exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Feume's national animal is the snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ultra-Taylorism.

Feume is ranked 2,200^th in the world and 3^rd in Sunshine Coast for Nicest Citizens, with 68.45 average smiles per day.