Spotlight on:

“What have we learned?”

The Tiny Village of Fartsniffage is a colossal, economically powerful nation, ruled by Sir Digby Chicken Caeser with an iron fist, and notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 7.221 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Law & Order, although Defence and Healthcare are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bishops Itchington. The average income tax rate is 100%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Uranium Mining and Arms Manufacturing.

Criminals are executed and their property seized, several citizens have complained about scientists abducting their pets for experimentation, people are now classified as male, female, or genderqueer, and all citizens are solely referenced by their allocated identity number. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Fartsniffage's national animal is the Lesser Spotted Tit, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Prince Philip Movementism, and its currency is the Wombat.

Fartsniffage is ranked 2nd in the region and 642nd in the world for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector.