The Lost Remnants of Forgotten Beauty is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Avaroa with an even hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, lack of airports, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate population of 15.994 billion Organisms enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alyvian. The average income tax rate is 95.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Organism economy, worth a remarkable 1,581 trillion Elysians a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is 98,863 Elysians, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, candlelit dinners are less romantic with a flickering LED, and astronomers are flocking to Forgotten Beauty to take advantage of its clear night skies. Crime is totally unknown. Forgotten Beauty's national animal is the Evergreen, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Forgotten Beauty is ranked 313,828^th in the world and 269^th in Forest for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -30.4 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.