The Empire of United Western Piedmont is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, infamous sell-swords, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working population of 1.809 billion United Western Piedmontians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 59.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient United Western Piedmontian economy, worth 205 trillion Oakland Marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 113,371 Oakland Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The military patrols the streets in search of possible secessionists, United Western Piedmont City's main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight, companies struggle to cover for the hordes of employees on parental leave, and religious figures have been banned from public holidays to make them more multicultural. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. United Western Piedmont's national animal is the Otter, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

United Western Piedmont is ranked 93,272^nd in the world and 4,044^th in The North Pacific for Highest Drug Use, scoring 72.4 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.