The Federal Republic of Watland is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 217 million Watlandians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Welfare, and Social Policy. The average income tax rate is 50.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Watlandian economy, worth 11.2 trillion wats a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Retail, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 51,571 wats, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Daisy chain gangs plant flowers and pick up litter, every diamond ring sold is accompanied by a twenty-five page analysis and a waiver, coffee-addicted citizens look forward to baristas getting their name wrong at local coffee shops, and farmers in arid regions are puzzled with government directions to plant rice this year. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Watland's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Watland is ranked 270,336^th in the world and 6,050^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -50.99 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.