The Everything to Nothing of Forever and Always- is a massive, socially progressive nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, suspicion of poets, and exploding hoverboards. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 2.379 billion Swifties 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 minute, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Swift City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.2%.

The strong Swiftie economy, worth 127 trillion Forever and Always a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Pizza Delivery, and Gambling. Average income is 53,409 Forever and Always, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 274,251 per year while the poor average 5,694, a ratio of 48.2 to 1.

Swings are now more popular than see-saws in children's playgrounds, criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat, sexuality-questioning teenagers are placed in locked rooms with dirty magazines and lewd posters, and foreign casinos have trouble paying fans who bet on the triumph of the Swift City Forever And Always against long odds. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Forever and Always-'s national animal is the Forever and Always, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Forever and Always- is ranked 170,367^th in the world and 17^th in Cenacle for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.