The Republic of Ferris Wheel is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its unlimited-speed roads, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 4.955 billion Ferris Wheelians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Round Round Town. The average income tax rate is 65.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Ferris Wheelian economy, worth 641 trillion Spinny Round Round Dollars 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 a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. 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 an impressive 129,489 Spinny Round Round Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

Gun ownership is compulsory, biker gangs and fashionistas are converting to Violetism en masse, glancing at the car radio display while driving is treated as attempted homicide, and the long arm of the law possesses a rather slow hand. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ferris Wheel's national animal is the Ferris Wheel Animal Things, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ferris Wheel is ranked 32,281^st in the world and 61^st in The Funian Puppet Region for Lowest Crime Rates, with 84.07 law-abiding acts per hour.