The Democratic Republic of Fartola is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its national health service, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 255 million Fartolans 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.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Fartolan economy, worth 16.3 trillion toots a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 64,058 toots, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Footballers are doing aerobics in the sauna to build their hot weather endurance, the government pours millions of toots into rehabilitation programs annually, mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field, and mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fartola's national animal is the Rattlesnake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Fartola is ranked 52,769^th in the world and 1,085^th in The East Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 73.54 law-abiding acts per hour.