The Commonwealth of Wickets Island is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion and absence of drug laws. The democratic population of 439 million Oyster Rockers hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 13.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Wickets Island economy, worth 17.5 trillion Rocks a year, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Soda Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 39,938 Rocks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

All recreational drugs are legal, education and welfare spending are on the rise, surveillance cameras are banned, and Leader's peyote-induced "let's all just be friends" speech is trending world-wide. Crime is relatively low. Wickets Island's national animal is the Chowder Clam, which can occasionally be seen avoiding garbage in the nation's murky oceans.

Wickets Island is ranked 257,094^th in the world and 1^st in Seashell for Largest Black Market, with 116 billion Standard Monetary Units.