The Most Serene Republic of Wangola is a large, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, ban on automobiles, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 94 million Wangolans 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 Welfare, Education, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 54.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Wangolan economy, worth 4.14 trillion wangs 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 dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Book Publishing. Average income is 44,085 wangs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Proper policy proposals prerequire professional peer-reviewed papers, citizens recently voted in favour of declaring bubblewrap an 'abomination of nature', accusations of corruption stick when the accused are long-gone, and former gun owners are finding that brandishing paintball guns isn't as satisfying as the real thing. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wangola's national animal is the stick insect, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Wangola is ranked 267,778^th in the world and 314^th in Refugia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -48.66 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.