The Holy Federation of New Fernia is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Carter Rowland with an iron fist, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, enforced nudity, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.878 billion New Fernians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — prioritizes Law & Order, with Defense and Spirituality also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ferncliffe. The average income tax rate is 77.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish New Fernian economy, worth 113 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 29,231 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children's bedrooms are often decorated with posters of successful accountants, the working classes live and die on the fields of the farming communes, gift baskets often contain working nukes, and nations across the world are quick to praise Carter Rowland's good looks and intellectual prowess. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. New Fernia's national animal is the mountain dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Fennism.

New Fernia is ranked 273,903^rd in the world and 2^nd in Flygon for Most Armed, with 0.16 weapons per person.