The Lands Beyond of The Front Range is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Minerva Potemkin with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, strictly enforced bedtime, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 9.245 billion Front Rangers are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Golden. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 2.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Front Ranger economy, worth a remarkable 2,292 trillion wampums a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Gambling. Average income is an amazing 247,972 wampums, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,263,128 per year while the poor average 3,003, a ratio of 753 to 1.

The new coalition government is so large nobody knows where it begins, trolls insist that strings of racial slurs mean "good morning" in obscure languages, national magistrates in Golden are overwhelmed with cases of petty larceny and attempted witchcraft, and gay couples have to travel to Brancaland to find a church that will actually let them wed. Crime is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The Front Range's national animal is the coyote, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

The Front Range is ranked 310,563^rd in the world and 4,155^th in the South Pacific for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -23.66 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.