The Federation of Willerston is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Tigrin Willors with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.204 billion Willerstonians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tiger City. The average income tax rate is 75.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Willerstonian economy, worth 140 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 116,500 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cogitators and mass debaters are skiving off work to hang around the National Symposium Park, motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours, extraordinary tribunals try accused financial criminals, and sex changes are routinely performed at Willerston's hospitals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Willerston's national animal is the Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catism.

Willerston is ranked 45,731^st in the world and 2,543^rd in Balder for Most Patriotic, with 29.46 flags saluted per person per day.