The Science-Funding Authority of Wheath is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Third Director with an even hand, and renowned for its compulsory vegetarianism, complete lack of prisons, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 2.727 billion Wheathites are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government prioritizes Education, although Defense, Administration, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kapstone. The average income tax rate is 78.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Wheathi economy, worth 435 trillion ꕥ Amaranthine Fleurs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 159,841 ꕥ Amaranthine Fleurs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Cutting-edge missile systems are being retrofitted to twin-prop air force biplanes, Wheath Barrier Island residents anxiously await their 'Bridge to Somewhere', people are raising their middle finger to non-digital currencies, and one-man canoes fitted with the latest tracking technology leave no room for one man. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Wheath's national animal is the Neades strandbeest monster, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Agnostic Atheism.

Wheath is ranked 118,940^th in the world and 63^rd in The Amaranthine Isles for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 1,899.08 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.