The Free Land of One Who Was is a massive, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, infamous sell-swords, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-working, democratic population of 4.366 billion One Who Wasians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 11.1%.

The strong One Who Wasian economy, worth 250 trillion Unities a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 57,269 Unities, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 185,423 per year while the poor average 13,355, a ratio of 13.9 to 1.

Returning tourists and businessmen are detained without trial if they belong to the "wrong" religion, One Who Wasian watches list strained wrists as a common side effect, a major religion has been named as One Who Was's national religion, and Leader has just been declared ruler of One Who Was in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. One Who Was's national animal is the Anla'Shok, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

One Who Was is ranked 231,033^rd in the world and 15^th in The Babylon 5 Universe for Most Beautiful Environments, with 400.01 pounds of wildlife per square mile.