The Federal Republic of Independent factions is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Viceroy Charles with an iron fist, and notable for its digital currency, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 16.626 billion Independent factionsians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pendragon. The average income tax rate is 90.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Independent factionsian economy, worth a remarkable 3,127 trillion Federal marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 188,100 Federal marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding", victims of crime are viewed as less trustworthy than politicians, party-lovers often change religions just for the weekend, and dog owners proudly declare that their pups can predict when the mailman will arrive. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Independent factions's national animal is the Long Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Independent factions is ranked 6,847^th in the world and 366^th in Osiris for Lowest Crime Rates, with 109.03 law-abiding acts per hour.