The Democratic Republic of Furen is a mid-sized, genial nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The democratic population of 62 million Furenians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 73.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Furenian economy, worth 1.24 trillion Furorns 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 led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Gambling. Average income is 19,968 Furorns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Escargots have lost their charm ever since they started to be called 'cooked land snails', windows in Furen City don't have much of a view, stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues, and the nightly news reports prosaically on the government blindly throwing money at despotic kidnappers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Furen's national animal is the cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Furen is ranked 168,351^st in the world and 73^rd in Aeternas for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 1,321.51 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.