The Republic of William Daniel Carpenter is a tiny, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 14 million William Daniel Carpenterians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Defense, with Administration, Public Transport, and Education also on the agenda, while International Aid and Spirituality are ignored. The average income tax rate is 28.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The developing William Daniel Carpenterian economy, worth 390 billion Bud Lights 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 slick, highly efficient black market in Tourism, Pizza Delivery, Trout Farming, and Basket Weaving. 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 27,917 Bud Lights, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Exam halls are littered with used needles and empty pill bottles, a valid legal defense is 'dead men tell no tales', college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, and reddish-brown is the new black. Crime is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force. William Daniel Carpenter's national animal is the Chocolate, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

William Daniel Carpenter is ranked 260,804^th in the world and 10^th in Indy for Most Cultured, scoring 62 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.