The Socialist Republic of Faetiria is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Subcomandante Scáthach mac Cuil with a fair hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, sprawling nuclear power plants, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 11.246 billion Faetirans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, 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 Dearg Curadgh. The average income tax rate is 93.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Faetiran economy, worth a remarkable 1,426 trillion Faetiran Lire 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 Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 126,886 Faetiran Lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Counselors have to sign pledges supporting gay rights before they can speak to any patients, jury selection begins with explaining what a jury is, most of the military's funding goes into researching space-age weaponry, and workers for the environmental protection agency are patted down for tartar sauce every morning. Crime is totally unknown. Faetiria's national animal is the Silver Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Faetiria is ranked 22,430^th in the world and 1,209^th in Osiris for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,738.02 on the Gilded Widget Scale.