The Glorious Empire of Ferengi Alliance Union is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Grand Nagus with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 12.641 billion Ferengis are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order, Industry, and Spirituality are also considered important, while Environment and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ferenginar. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 84.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Ferengi economy, worth a remarkable 7,238 trillion Gold Pressed Latinums a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is a breathtaking 572,618 Gold Pressed Latinums, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 5,269,262 per year while the poor average 6,363, a ratio of 828 to 1.

Prison reforms have replaced communal luaus with communal loos, families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain, a National Academy regulates grammar and usage, and the only way to escape lengthy prison terms is in a body bag. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ferengi Alliance Union's national animal is the Latinum Goat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Divine Treasury.

Ferengi Alliance Union is ranked 37,330^th in the world and 1^st in Shadow Realms for Largest Populations, with 12.6 billion capita.