The Loving Couple of For-TheFuture is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by William with an iron fist, and renowned for its infamous sell-swords, feral children, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 7.351 billion For-TheFutureans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of England. The average income tax rate is 56.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient For-TheFuturean economy, worth 687 trillion snails a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Soda Sales, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 93,496 snails, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Postcards from For-TheFuturean driving test centres are popular souvenirs, laws are littered with references to cheese, state media insists that William is the most fashionable leader in The Trout Essembly, and people are often woken up by rubbish music. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. For-TheFuture's national animal is the owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Cards.

For-TheFuture is ranked 112,716^th in the world and 15^th in The Trout Essembly for Most Cultured, scoring 65 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.