The Zombie Forest of Araine is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Woodland Council with a fair hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, daily referendums, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.509 billion Araineans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Foxglove Hill. The average income tax rate is 92.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Arainean economy, worth 553 trillion acorns a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 122,664 acorns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Arainean tourists are encouraged to hand out spare condoms to locals while on vacation, suburban backyards are seized by the government and turned into national parks, construction workers evacuate work sites after finding sharp rocks on the ground, and the nation is stuck in permanent election mode as politicians demand constant do-overs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Araine's national animal is the northern flicker, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Agnosticism.

Araine is ranked 7,723^rd in the world and 16^th in Refugia for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 13,710.29 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.