The Woodhouse Sanctum of Columbia River Gorge is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, avant-garde cinema, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, devout population of 22.834 billion Columbia River Gorgeans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 49.5%.

The powerhouse Columbia River Gorgean economy, worth a remarkable 1,799 trillion $$s a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 78,788 $$s, with the richest citizens earning 7.6 times as much as the poorest.

Shaken martini sales have soared in nations surrounding Columbia River Gorge, the police use sound cannons and mortars to deal with loud parties, many marriages go virtually unconsummated, and drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Columbia River Gorge's national animal is the Dolly Varden, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Columbia River Gorge is ranked 64,916^th in the world and 1^st in Columbiana for Lowest Crime Rates, with 70.87 law-abiding acts per hour.