The United Socialist States of Willstrathia is a huge, safe nation, notable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 283 million Willstrathians 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 70.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Willstrathian economy, worth 9.81 trillion Pookies a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 34,680 Pookies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All you have to do is pray to get into Willstrathia, the government has legalised small-scale capitalism, arbitrary election rules are considered sacrosanct, and interest in globalism never flags. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Willstrathia's national animal is the Dhar Mann.

Willstrathia is ranked 267,146^th in the world and 2^nd in Wellester United for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -48.99 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.