The Democratic Republic of Whitney Smith is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, public floggings, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, hard-working, devout population of 7.482 billion Whitney Smithians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 36.4%.

The very strong Whitney Smithian economy, worth 412 trillion Flags a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 55,095 Flags, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 163,274 per year while the poor average 14,596, a ratio of 11.2 to 1.

Balaclava manufacturers are held criminally culpable for bank heists, drug lords often avoid prison time by teaching "chemistry" classes to underprivileged youth, Flagpoles with strange deformities like three eyes and tentacles have been seen prancing through the countryside where industrial waste is dumped, and money can't buy love but mercy is entirely negotiable. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Whitney Smith's national animal is the Flagpole, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Whitney Smith is ranked 140,680^th in the world and 1^st in Vexillology for Lowest Crime Rates, with 61.77 law-abiding acts per hour.