The Borderlands of The Front Range is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its deadly medical pandemics, ubiquitous missile silos, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 228 million Front Rangers are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Industry are also considered important, while International Aid and Environment receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.9%.

The all-consuming Front Ranger economy, worth 23.6 trillion metal scraps a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 103,646 metal scraps, with the richest citizens earning 9.3 times as much as the poorest.

Deceased politicians' MyFace profiles are unanimously pro-incumbent, it's rumored that Marche Noire knows what the nation's generals eat for breakfast, savvy nightclub-goers know that structurally unsound venues sell the cheapest drinks, and The Front Range is increasingly belligerent on the international stage. 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. The Front Range's national animal is the giant tick, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Front Range is ranked 206,287^th in the world and 7,014^th in the South Pacific for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -8 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.