The Loving Couple of For-The Future- is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Tibbles with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, compulsory gun ownership, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.354 billion For-The Future-ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bonesborough. The average income tax rate is 56.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient For-The Future-ian economy, worth 807 trillion snails 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, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Retail. 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 an impressive 109,852 snails, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Party has more splits than a yo-yo dieter's trousers, Tibbles's power is effectively nullified as no bill becomes law without the upper house's support, decongestants have replaced snails in street transactions, and a small country is wondering where their capitol building's gold dome went. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. For-The Future-'s national animal is the owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Cards.

For-The Future- is ranked 128,244^th in the world and 2^nd in The First Fortress for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 910.47 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.