The Forests of Free Twigland is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 6.781 billion Twigs are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the Squirrelly Nature Reserve. The average income tax rate is 56.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Twig economy, worth 293 trillion twigs a year, is led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 43,343 twigs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Politicians spend more time in courtrooms than in Parliament, corporations are forbidden from employing outside the nation, old warplanes and tanks that break down can't be repaired since no one makes the parts anymore, and local executives are seen on the corner with cardboard signs reading "will oppress the masses for food". Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Free Twigland's national animal is the Eastern Gray Squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Free Twigland is ranked 7,163^rd in the world and 21^st in Libertarian Socialist Confederation for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 57.39 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.