The Republic of FNWI-XVI is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, fear of technology, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 978 million FNWI-XVIians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 50.4%.

The strong FNWI-XVIian economy, worth 46.3 trillion Cards a year, is quite specialized and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Retail, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 47,357 Cards, with the richest citizens earning 7.0 times as much as the poorest.

There's no representation without taxation, psychiatrists that date patients are congratulated on their romantic conquests, religious turf wars have caused frustrated police to pray for divine intervention, and ad hoc militias patrol the streets in an effort to control rampant crime. Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. FNWI-XVI's national animal is the Cards, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

FNWI-XVI is ranked 294,268^th in the world and 88^th in Federated Nation of Western Islands for Nicest Citizens, with 1.3 average smiles per day.