The Hopeful Earldom of Wesstmooreland is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by The Earl of Westmoreland with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate population of 19.635 billion Northern Scums are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Appleby. The average income tax rate is 73.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Wesstmoorelandian economy, worth a remarkable 1,334 trillion Pounds a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 67,961 Pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Motorists' locations are constantly tracked by intelligence and law enforcement agencies, engineers ask liberal arts majors "Do you want fries with that?", children are disappointed to learn that cavemen never had a yabba-dabba-doo time riding dinosaurs to work, and internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered Wesstmoorelandian weed picker are way up. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wesstmooreland's national animal is the Greyhound, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Wesstmooreland is ranked 54,516^th in the world and 40^th in Empire of Great Britain for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 137.17 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.