The Rogue Nation of Sewards Folly is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, anti-smoking policies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 682 million Sewards Follyians 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, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fort Bering. The average income tax rate is 89.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Sewards Follyian economy, worth 70.4 trillion rationmarks 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 Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 103,274 rationmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students, making up random numbers to name new asteroids is the bulk of astronomers' work, failed genetic experiments wreak havoc as they roam the countryside, and environmentalists are staging large protests in front of reopened nuclear power plants. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sewards Folly's national animal is the sea urchin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Sewards Folly is ranked 132,957^th in the world and 18^th in Fallen Nations for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 1,959.33 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.