The Borderlands of A Fair Wind is a colossal, genial nation, renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, zero percent divorce rate, and frequent executions. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 4.174 billion Fair Windians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.8%.

The very strong Fair Windian economy, worth 246 trillion pounds a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 58,976 pounds, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 237,888 per year while the poor average 9,766, a ratio of 24.4 to 1.

The state is footing the bill for billionaires' lawyers, the government makes bereaved siblings into bereaved orphans, apples shaped like baguettes have become a strange new food fad, and museums have more touchscreens on display than artifacts. Crime is moderate. A Fair Wind's national animal is the parrot, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

A Fair Wind is ranked 46,654^th in the world and 1^st in Prison for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 48.45 on the Kitten Softness Rating.