The Colony of Pale Oak Forest is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service, digital currency, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working, devout population of 898 million Pale Oak Forestians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 46.3%.

The very strong Pale Oak Forestian economy, worth 63.5 trillion Diamonds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 70,725 Diamonds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Political visitors are forced to stop ten paces from Leader's throne, burning yourself alive is not okay but starving and whipping yourself is fine, polygraphs are relegated to the dungeon exhibit in castle museums, and the nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pale Oak Forest's national animal is the Zombie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pale Oak Forest is ranked 84,426^th in the world and 5^th in IxCraft for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,164.84 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.