The Sunlit Lands of Formaro is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Śmaragon Boremuza with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and smutty television. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 2.811 billion Formarins hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cernesta. The average income tax rate is 92.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Formari economy, worth 597 trillion citrans a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 212,397 citrans, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Government bureaucrats devote many man-hours to trying to measure unquantifiables, most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists, military strategists are questioning the wisdom of subsidizing the economies of sworn enemies, and police officers often head to work wearing onesies and fluffy pink bunny-slippers. Crime is totally unknown. Formaro's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Light of the Gilded Star.

Formaro is ranked 3,293^rd in the world and 87^th in The East Pacific for Largest Retail Industry, scoring 22,610.05 on the Shrinkwrap Consignment Productivity Index.