The Tiny Village of Fartsniffage is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Sir Digby Chicken Caeser with a fair hand, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, keen interest in outer space, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 26.936 billion Fartsniffageans 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 medium-sized, corrupt, outspoken government prioritizes Law & Order, although Defense, Healthcare, and Education are also considered important, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bishops Itchington. The average income tax rate is 92.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Fartsniffagean economy, worth a remarkable 4,671 trillion Wombats a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 173,420 Wombats, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance, excessive wheelchair ramps on government buildings have been compared to theme park attractions, the nation's forests are full of treasure hunters in military-grade survival gear, and military strategists are questioning the wisdom of subsidizing the economies of sworn enemies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fartsniffage's national animal is the Aardvark, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Prince Philip Movementism.

Fartsniffage is ranked 74,254^th in the world and 1^st in A quiet spot in the clouds for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 569.85 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.