The Loving Couple of ForThe-Future- is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sashley with an iron fist, and renowned for its avowedly heterosexual populace, anti-smoking policies, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 7.419 billion ForThe-Future-ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Demon Realm. The average income tax rate is 62.3%.

The frighteningly efficient ForThe-Future-ian economy, worth 697 trillion snails a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 94,063 snails, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.8 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's arms dealers guarantee discretion and untraceable transactions, foreigners are treated with great suspicion, drug-related crimes carry the death penalty, and whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ForThe-Future-'s national animal is the owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Cards.

ForThe-Future- is ranked 104,879^th in the world and 22^nd in The waiting room of matheo for Largest Populations, with 7.42 billion capita.