The Principality of The Ever-Growing Tree is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Cisco with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, ban on automobiles, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 2.905 billion Leaves enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, although Administration, Healthcare, and Welfare are also considered important, while Defense and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nook. The average income tax rate is 71.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Treean economy, worth 188 trillion Rings a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 65,006 Rings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Atheism is seen as a prerequisite for political power, women who walk into the ladies' changing room are accused of being Peeping Toms, multiple polls have christened the newly-formed Filibuster Committee as "the least efficient government bureaucracy", and the government has instituted 'traveller reservations' across the country. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Ever-Growing Tree's national animal is the Stag, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Transcendentalism.

The Ever-Growing Tree is ranked 44,914^th in the world and 146^th in Forest for Lowest Crime Rates, with 75.9 law-abiding acts per hour.