The Loving Couple of -For-The-Future- is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Stringbean with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, vat-grown people, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.409 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Owl House. The average income tax rate is 76.9%.

The powerhouse -For-The-Future-ian economy, worth 697 trillion snails a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 94,131 snails, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

The hardest thing for a mining operation to dig through is government red tape, denied drugs and entertainment the nation's youth are taking to petty crime to alleviate their boredom, citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering', and religious citizens are closely monitored for signs of self-harm. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -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 320,783^rd in the world and 3^rd in Rosartemis for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -15.26 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.