The West Country Yokeldom of Fannyfield is a huge, socially progressive nation, notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 842 million Fannyfielders are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Weston-super-Mare. The average income tax rate is 84.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Fannyfieldish economy, worth 75.0 trillion fannyfrancs 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 89,102 fannyfrancs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader has no checks and balances after the upper house was abolished, programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours, five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars, and the government burgles the houses of holidaying citizens. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fannyfield's national animal is the tit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Fannyfield is ranked 100,652^nd in the world and 5,641^st in Lazarus for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 2,646.55 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.