The Not Kenneth Branagh of Western Fardelshufflestein is a massive, safe nation, ruled by King Alastair Kehrer IV tHe bELoVeD with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 3.237 billion Western Fardelshufflesteinians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Hamletberg. The average income tax rate is 70.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Western Fardelshufflesteinian economy, worth 284 trillion schlubs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 87,764 schlubs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, there's some really clean windows in Western Fardelshufflesteinian houses, sex education has become an intricate maze of stick figures and complex metaphors, and politicians are often seen attending regional history classes at primary schools within their constituencies. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Western Fardelshufflestein's national animal is the Eurasian brown bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Kenneth Branaghism.

Western Fardelshufflestein is ranked 27,754^th in the world and 660^th in the South Pacific for Rudest Citizens, with 95.54 insults per minute.