The Grand Duchy of Forstuline is a large, safe nation, renowned for its public floggings, flagrant waste-dumping, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 50 million Forstuliners enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 11.4%.

The very strong Forstulinean economy, worth 3.75 trillion Euros a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 75,047 Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Street crime is on the rise as police officers spend most of their time in prisons, corporate lawyers are joyfully combing through the new tax code for any new loopholes for their clients, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, and drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Forstuline's national animal is the Scarlet Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Forstuline is ranked 113,947^th in the world and 252^nd in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,084.49 on the Gilded Widget Scale.