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The Grand Duchy of Fenwicque is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Tulli Bascombe with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.814 billion 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 72%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising fourteen-year-old boys selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

The Fenwicque Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon', customs turn away those considered to have an unfavourable ethnicity, political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations, and military funding has been stripped back. Crime is totally unknown. Fenwicque's national animal is the grizzly partridge, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the fenny.

Fenwicque is ranked 2400th in the region and 50,359th in the world for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry.