The Glorious Empire of Ferengi Alliance Union is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Grand Nagus with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, triple-decker prams, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 12.63 billion Ferengis are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order, Industry, and Spirituality also on the agenda, while Environment and Social Policy receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ferenginar. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 83.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Ferengi economy, worth a remarkable 7,219 trillion Gold Pressed Latinums a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is a breathtaking 571,586 Gold Pressed Latinums, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 5,259,771 per year while the poor average 6,352, a ratio of 828 to 1.

The nation's forests are full of treasure hunters in military-grade survival gear, university graduates and new home-owners toil in labour camps to work off their debts, political activists are routinely executed, and policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ferengi Alliance Union's national animal is the Latinum Goat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Divine Treasury.

Ferengi Alliance Union is ranked 69,441^st in the world and 68^th in Shadow Realms for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 3,583.73 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.