The Eternal Whispers of 1943 is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its smutty television, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 27.918 billion 1943ers love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Education, with Environment, Welfare, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Defense receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eternal Whisper. The average income tax rate is 85.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but underdeveloped 1943ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,760 trillion spuds a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 63,044 spuds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There are increasing complaints that male AI assistants have aggressive voices, passive-aggressive congratulations cards inform mums-to-be that their pregnancy is their greatest achievement in life, representatives soak in mineral pools at the new capitol building day spa, and comatose jurors are the defense's favorite. Crime is totally unknown. 1943's national animal is the bull, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

1943 is ranked 160,840^th in the world and 7^th in The Maritimes for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 768.38 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.