The person that the Gallatin National Forest was named after, Albert Gallatin, was an important leader of the Democratic-Republican Party.
 It is set in an alternate history, the so-called Gallatin Universe, where a libertarian society has formed on the North American continent, styled the North American Confederacy ("NAC"). 
Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin (January 29, 1761  August 12, 1849) was a Swiss-American politician, diplomat, ethnologist and linguist. 
 He was an important leader of the Democratic-Republican Party, serving in various federal elective and appointed positions across four decades. 
 The forest is named after Albert Gallatin (17611849), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and scholar of Native American languages and cultures. 
