The Empire of Wilhelmsborough is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Emperor William Kennedy with a fair hand, and notable for its national health service, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 14.865 billion Wilhelmsboroughians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yalta. The average income tax rate is 87.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Wilhelmsboroughian economy, worth a remarkable 1,952 trillion Euros a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 131,379 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Emperor William Kennedy lights cigars with a hundred-Euro bill, the weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme, tourists call Wilhelmsboroughian beach towns "the fine coastline", and a bureaucratic fight over WIA cafeteria food expenditures has caused the temporary suspension of all agency counterintelligence operations. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wilhelmsborough's national animal is the Spider, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Wilhelmsborough is ranked 104,174^th in the world and 4,603^rd in Lazarus for Largest Black Market, with 436 billion Standard Monetary Units.