The Republic of Westcoast is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its daily referendums and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 781 million Westcoastians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wellingborough. The average income tax rate is 47.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Westcoastian economy, worth 33.5 trillion euros a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 42,839 euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The latest guided missile cruiser "Ship-1642" has received precisely zero column inches in the press, a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, politicians always seem to take two steps forward then three steps back, and critical thinking is grounds for expulsion from university. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Westcoast's national animal is the bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Westcoast is ranked 197,477^th in the world and 603^rd in Europe for Most Primitive, scoring -84.44 on the Scary Big Number Scale.