The Democratic Republic of West Ladynia is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 311 million West Ladynians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Solano. The average income tax rate is 82.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong West Ladynian economy, worth 23.1 trillion Planets a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 74,399 Planets, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, the government is more interested in identifying problems than fixing them, there is an abondance of ackawi and zartschmelzend in every West Ladynian grocery store, and authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. West Ladynia's national animal is the Peacock, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

West Ladynia is ranked 6,070^th in the world and 55^th in Refugia for Safest, scoring 128.09 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.