The Mercenary State of Ferris Archipelago is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Connor O'donnel with an iron fist, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory military service, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 1.718 billion Ferrisians 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 tiny, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sidiropolis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Ferris Archipelagoan economy, worth 220 trillion Ferums 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 slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, 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 128,186 Ferums, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 487,254 per year while the poor average 23,383, a ratio of 20.8 to 1.

War criminals are given full state funerals, the green glow is a sign of clean energy, gigantic marble churches take up almost half the land area of small villages, and the 3rd Airborne Beekeepers are the most feared regiment in the Ferris Archipelagoan military. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ferris Archipelago's national animal is the Ferrisian Monitor, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Ferrisian Neo Paganism.

Ferris Archipelago is ranked 237,299^th in the world and 2,286^th in the Pacific for Rudest Citizens, with 30.51 insults per minute.