The Colony of Forest and Tundra Settlements is a gargantuan, orderly nation, renowned for its compulsory military service and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 25.995 billion Forest and Tundra Settlementsians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 50.1%.

The Forest and Tundra Settlementsian economy, worth 919 trillion lire a year, is quite specialized and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Basket Weaving, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 35,360 lire, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Forest and Tundra Settlements's national animal is the petrel.

Forest and Tundra Settlements is ranked 187,510^th in the world and 1^st in Winter for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 60.42 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.