The Most Serene Republic of Featured Forest is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by The Green Man with an even hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.134 billion Featured Foresters enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sequoia. The average income tax rate is 91.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Featured Forestian economy, worth 440 trillion marks a year, is highly specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 106,579 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Island residents must resort to canoes and sailboats to get to work, scientific journals publish third-graders' school essays, pillows outnumber picket signs at most workers rallies, and the number of students attending university has reached a record high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Featured Forest's national animal is the Common raccoon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Naturism.

Featured Forest is ranked 21,730^th in the world and 3^rd in Celestial Frontiers for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 7,525.83 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.