The Federal Art Depository of Fad is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by The Director with an iron fist, and notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 11.337 billion Curators are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of A Grandiose Neo-Classical Structure. The average income tax rate is 71.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Fadian economy, worth a remarkable 1,201 trillion Charitable Donations a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 105,975 Charitable Donations, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Political spontaneity takes a lot of planning, citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee, the country is rumored to be a Brancalandian puppet state, and there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fad's national animal is the Marmoset, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Fad is ranked 10,731^st in the world and 89^th in Forest for Safest, scoring 120.37 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.