The Oppressed Peoples of Fjordretard is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 358 million Fjordretardians 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 large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 66.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Fjordretardian economy, worth 9.54 trillion Rubycoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Soda Sales. Average income is 26,639 Rubycoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hypochondriacs demand treatment for genetic disorders they don't have, an aboriginal talking stick is used for leaders' debates at election time, kids are told they can be whoever they want to be when they grow up, and the examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners. Crime is totally unknown. Fjordretard's national animal is the Ruby, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Fjordretard is ranked 141,253^rd in the world and 9^th in Redacted for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 672.82 on the Gilded Widget Scale.