The National Union of Poulton-with-Fearnhead is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Magnús Bertelsson with an even hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, ubiquitous missile silos, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 16.111 billion Varcarians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

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

The frighteningly efficient Poulton-with-Fearnheadian economy, worth a remarkable 5,253 trillion Færns a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 326,093 Færns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Exported livestock are wined and dined before they are flat ironed, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, Poulton-with-Fearnhead has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world, and children dream of becoming physicians and physicists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Poulton-with-Fearnhead's national animal is the Dove, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is State Atheism.

Poulton-with-Fearnhead is ranked 288,301^st in the world and 1,299^th in Europeia for Safest, scoring 4.48 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.