diff --git a/docs/guides/01-mocking.md b/docs/guides/01-mocking.md
index b9088a549..334578a84 100644
--- a/docs/guides/01-mocking.md
+++ b/docs/guides/01-mocking.md
@@ -187,6 +187,23 @@ The more descriptive your description is, the better job Prism can do at creatin
 
 > **Tip:** If your team needs help creating better quality API description documents, take a look at [Spectral](https://stoplight.io/spectral/). You could enforce the use of `example` properties, or similar.
 
+##### Configure JSON Schema Faker
+
+At the top level of your API Specification, create an `x-json-schema-faker`
+member containing a map of [JSON Schema Faker Options](https://github.com/json-schema-faker/json-schema-faker/tree/master/docs#available-options) and their values. An
+additional `locale` option is accepted to configure the `locale` of the
+underlying Faker instance.
+
+```yaml
+openapi: 3.1.0
+
+x-json-schema-faker:
+  locale: de
+  min-items: 2
+  max-items: 10
+  resolve-json-path: true
+```
+
 ### Request Validation
 
 Having a mock server which only gave responses would not be very useful, which is why
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/extensions.ts b/packages/cli/src/extensions.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4ae0c3734
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cli/src/extensions.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+import { dereference } from 'json-schema-ref-parser';
+import { decycle } from '@stoplight/json';
+import { get, camelCase, forOwn } from 'lodash';
+import * as jsf from 'json-schema-faker';
+
+export async function configureExtensionsFromSpec(specFilePathOrObject: string | object): Promise<void> {
+  const result = decycle(await dereference(specFilePathOrObject));
+
+  forOwn(get(result, 'x-json-schema-faker', {}), (value: any, option: string) => {
+    if (option === 'locale') return jsf.locate('faker').setLocale(value);
+
+    jsf.option(camelCase(option), value);
+  });
+}
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/util/createServer.ts b/packages/cli/src/util/createServer.ts
index 449333210..8e598adec 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/util/createServer.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/util/createServer.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import { createExamplePath } from './paths';
 import { attachTagsToParamsValues, transformPathParamsValues } from './colorizer';
 import { CreatePrism } from './runner';
 import { getHttpOperationsFromSpec } from '../operations';
+import { configureExtensionsFromSpec } from '../extensions';
 
 type PrismLogDescriptor = LogDescriptor & { name: keyof typeof LOG_COLOR_MAP; offset?: number; input: IHttpRequest };
 
@@ -66,6 +67,7 @@ const createSingleProcessPrism: CreatePrism = options => {
 
 async function createPrismServerWithLogger(options: CreateBaseServerOptions, logInstance: Logger) {
   const operations = await getHttpOperationsFromSpec(options.document);
+  await configureExtensionsFromSpec(options.document);
 
   if (operations.length === 0) {
     throw new Error('No operations found in the current file.');
diff --git a/packages/http/src/mocker/generator/JSONSchema.ts b/packages/http/src/mocker/generator/JSONSchema.ts
index 8af707beb..2dc37b43a 100644
--- a/packages/http/src/mocker/generator/JSONSchema.ts
+++ b/packages/http/src/mocker/generator/JSONSchema.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import * as faker from 'faker/locale/en_US';
+import * as faker from 'faker';
 import { cloneDeep } from 'lodash';
 import { JSONSchema } from '../../types';