The Federal Democratic Republic of Treeford is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Prime Minister Franklin Wade Swanson with a fair hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, national health service, and zero percent divorce rate. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 6.941 billion Treefordians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Treefordapolis. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Treefordian economy, worth a remarkable 1,182 trillion Maples a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 170,336 Maples, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations, there is an abondance of ackawi and zartschmelzend in every Treefordian grocery store, it takes a village to catch a criminal, and the only things written in the stars are arrest warrants for astrologers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Treeford's national animal is the Wild Turkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Treeford is ranked 1,756^th in the world and 45^th in 10000 Islands for Healthiest Citizens, with 28.99 bananas ingested per day.