The Federation of Windurst is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Star Sybil with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.165 billion Windurstians 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 large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Windurst City. The average income tax rate is 85.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Windurstian economy, worth 633 trillion Gils a year, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 151,914 Gils, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property, every week is blindness awareness week, recreational drug businesses are regularly pruned if they grow above the maximum legal size, and Windurst City consists only of government buildings and the mansions of government janitors. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Windurst's national animal is the Mandragora, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Windurst is ranked 9,208^th in the world and 201^st in The North Pacific for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 8 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.