The Watch how I Soar Nation of A Leaf on the Wind is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Ephraim Barnes with an even hand, and notable for its avant-garde cinema, national health service, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 7.364 billion BrownCoats are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Serenity. The average income tax rate is 71.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Leaf on the Windian economy, worth 269 trillion Credits a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 36,548 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Murder victims' families receive windfall payouts when the murderers are executed, the government tries not to listen to the people unless it absolutely has to, religious turf wars have caused frustrated police to pray for divine intervention, and manual labourers must be willing to have cybernetic limbs to get a job. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. A Leaf on the Wind's national animal is the Parrot, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Mirandaism.

A Leaf on the Wind is ranked 30,968^th in the world and 776^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 2,523.58 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.