The Rubbish Puppet of Farbelia is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by The Autocrat with an even hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, vat-grown people, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 4.356 billion Farbelians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — prioritizes Education, with Administration, Defense, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Otter City. The average income tax rate is 80.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Farbelian economy, worth 190 trillion Ottertokens 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 led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 43,714 Ottertokens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's only university is the School of Hard Knocks, politicians preface their speeches with a declaration that any resemblance to speeches given by individuals living or dead is purely coincidental, the navy is chrome-plating its battleships to prevent rust, and police are arresting costumed characters at comic book conventions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Farbelia's national animal is the Otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Lutrianism.

Farbelia is ranked 42,067^th in the world and 20^th in Antarctica for Lowest Crime Rates, with 76.84 law-abiding acts per hour.