The Group Hug of West Polcomia is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Gracious Leader with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 11.03 billion West Polcomians 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 Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Evening. The average income tax rate is 96.5%.

The frighteningly efficient West Polcomian economy, worth a remarkable 1,560 trillion shares a year, is highly specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 141,440 shares, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs, Chekhov's guns are killing the entertainment budget, coffee cups have grown in size to accommodate the huge ingredients list, and bins outnumber trees in city parks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. West Polcomia's national animal is the warbler, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is a compassionate religion.

West Polcomia is ranked 56,074^th in the world and 1^st in Polcomia for Largest Populations, with 11.0 billion capita.