The Community of The Walk of Life is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by MrLife with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 16.782 billion Walk of Lifeans 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of LifeCity. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 57.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Walk of Lifean economy, worth a remarkable 1,608 trillion guitars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is 95,816 guitars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 329,288 per year while the poor average 20,445, a ratio of 16.1 to 1.

Criminals tell the police where their jurisdiction ends, freedom is never freely given — only when the alternative is too expensive, politicians that report exaggerated crowd sizes for their speeches are dismissed for being delusional, and older citizens lament over the loss of law and order. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Walk of Life's national animal is the songbird, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Atheism.

The Walk of Life is ranked 87,626^th in the world and 113^th in Nederland for Most Patriotic, with 16.47 flags saluted per person per day.