The Community of The High Wilderness is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Cypress King with a fair hand, and remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, smutty television, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 6.697 billion High Wildernessians 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Avid Horizon. The average income tax rate is 96.4%.

The frighteningly efficient High Wildernessian economy, worth a remarkable 1,000 trillion Echoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 149,351 Echoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Super Barry Brothers is the most popular video game in the nation, the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, the nation's industries are scrambling to switch to biodegradable plastics, and fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The High Wilderness's national animal is the Bismark ringed python, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The High Wilderness is ranked 290,406^th in the world and 2^nd in Abernalia for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.26 kickbacks per hour.