The Incorporated States of Ferkholt is a very large, socially progressive nation, renowned for its public floggings, irreverence towards religion, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 301 million Ferkholtians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 22.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Ferkholtian economy, worth 32.0 trillion Exchange Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 106,318 Exchange Credits, with the richest citizens earning 9.4 times as much as the poorest.

Ships no longer sail as no one wants to encounter Ferkholtian pirates, paranoid museum guards keep a lookout for any animated displays attempting to escape the premises after dark, Leader's reputation is hard as nails, and in musicals everybody's a little bit racist. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Ferkholt's national animal is the Ice Leviathan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Ferkholt is ranked 59,388^th in the world and 3^rd in womp for Highest Average Incomes, with 106,318.27 Standard Monetary Units.