The Loving Couple of ForThe Future is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Bat Queen with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, flagrant waste-dumping, and compulsory vegetarianism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 7.528 billion ForThe Futureans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Boiling Isles Woods. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 48.9%.

The frighteningly efficient ForThe Futurean economy, worth 595 trillion snails a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 79,092 snails, with the richest citizens earning 9.2 times as much as the poorest.

Political speeches always take place at sunset to a background of patriotic power ballads, the justice of ForThe Future is considered superior to that of other nations, trust-fund babies line up for places in community college, and computers are allowed but only just. 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 teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cards.

ForThe Future is ranked 78,779^th in the world and 1^st in Dark World for Most Developed, scoring 67.81 on the Human Development Index.