The Sylvan Kingdom of Willow Gate is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Queen with an iron fist, and notable for its national health service, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 13.749 billion Gateholders are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of King's Eye. The average income tax rate is 99.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Willow Gatean economy, worth a remarkable 2,004 trillion lycans a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Beef-Based Agriculture industry. Average income is an impressive 145,820 lycans, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government expenses are beyond compare, children crying over dropped ice creams are offered high doses of experimental antidepressants, cutting-edge missile systems are being retrofitted to twin-prop air force biplanes, and the ego of former emperors tend to match their stature. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Willow Gate's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Willow Gate is ranked 331,244^th in the world and 2,668^th in the West Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -25.28 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.