The Most Serene Republic of Wangola is a small, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare. The democratic population of 45 million Wangolans 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 government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Social Policy, and Education. The average income tax rate is 48.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Wangolan economy, worth 1.77 trillion wangs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 39,372 wangs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations, five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars, there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees, and military equipment stores have a tendency to go up in flames. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wangola's national animal is the stick insect, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Wangola is ranked 125,630^th in the world and 259^th in Refugia for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 884.64 on the Gilded Widget Scale.