The Whispering Trees of Forest Breeze is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Ed Abbey's head with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 8.267 billion Forest Breezers hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Spruce Hollow. The average income tax rate is 96.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Forest Breezer economy, worth a remarkable 1,472 trillion carbon credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Soda Sales, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 178,093 carbon credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation has nearly as many history museums as Forest Breezers, tourist operators promise visitors tours of live burning shipwrecks and plane crash sites, urban parents tell their children that the family car went to a farm upstate, and the government props up questionable pizza establishments in the name of health. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Forest Breeze's national animal is the whirligig beetle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Machine Worship.

Forest Breeze is ranked 190,494^th in the world and 3,302^nd in Lazarus for Fattest Citizens, with 9.57 Obesity Rate.