The Quiet Relaxation of A Forest Clearing is a mammoth, orderly nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, ritual sacrifices, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 9.316 billion Fauns are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Conval. The average income tax rate is 68.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Faunan economy, worth 422 trillion Petals a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Soda Sales, Pizza Delivery, Arms Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 45,398 Petals, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military advisors frequently remind San Vitenzan farmers that they have to pull the pin on a grenade before throwing it, a government program is underway to revitalize A Forest Clearing's beaches, singles on the dating scene no longer worry about looking their age, and soiled underwear is being repurposed as (off-)white flags. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. A Forest Clearing's national animal is the Deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

A Forest Clearing is ranked 297,425^th in the world and 24^th in Fukuoka for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -7.43 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.