The Federation of Windurst is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Star Sybil with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.291 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 86.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Windurstian economy, worth 672 trillion Gils a year, is led 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 156,675 Gils, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pharmacists are the nation's most avid coffee consumers, coffee-addicted citizens look forward to baristas getting their name wrong at local coffee shops, academics have a bone to pick with free market entrepreneurs, and the government is constantly producing new maps to accommodate the continual renaming of cities. 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 8,282^nd in the world and 360^th in The North Pacific for Safest, scoring 122.18 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.