The Loving Couple of ForThe Future- is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Stringbean with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.288 billion ForThe Future-ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Owl House. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 36.2%.

The frighteningly efficient ForThe Future-ian economy, worth 185 trillion snails a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Cheese Exports, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is 81,076 snails, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 230,156 per year while the poor average 22,812, a ratio of 10.1 to 1.

Trust-fund babies line up for places in community college, the Treasury has been accused of flushing money down the toilet, the government has the power to seize property at will, and postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. ForThe Future-'s national animal is the owl, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Cards.

ForThe Future- is ranked 85,224^th in the world and 1^st in Monkeypuzzle for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 323.42 on the Clooney Contribution Index.