The Principality of Wintermute is a gargantuan, orderly nation, notable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 46.271 billion Wintermuteans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Social Policy. The income tax rate is 100%.

The enormous but inefficient Wintermutean economy, worth a remarkable 6,458 trillion cutest little things a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 139,573 cutest little things, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation refuses to provide international aid, a government program is underway to revitalize Wintermute's beaches, organ donation rates have hit a new low, and TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wintermute's national animal is the subject of much debate, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Wintermute is ranked 104,137^th in the world and 4,999^th in Lazarus for Most Corrupt Governments, with 11.6 kickbacks per hour.