The Sandrider of Fedaykin 42 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, public floggings, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.387 billion Fedaykin 42ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 40.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Fedaykin 42ian economy, worth 444 trillion Melange Units 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. 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 69,625 Melange Units, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

They who do not work shall not eat, cassocked priests and choirboys believe that what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors, the military is researching proton packs and PK-meters to combat "unseen enemy forces", and politicians sweat as journalists scour internet archives for any mention of them. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Fedaykin 42's national animal is the Maker, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Fedaykin 42 is ranked 25,651^st in the world and 195^th in Memeland United for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring 7,082.95 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.