The Community of Winglick is a huge, safe nation, ruled by cat with an even hand, and renowned for its avowedly heterosexual populace, daily referendums, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed population of 856 million Winglickians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of maus. The average income tax rate is 44.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Winglickian economy, worth 50.4 trillion mices a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 58,832 mices, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, public transit is widely considered to be perpetrating the patriarchy, lonely children write fanfiction about absent fathers, and the Maus XV Regiment (aka "The Goat Starers") have yet to win a battle. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Winglick's national animal is the cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Winglick is ranked 252,352^nd in the world and 502^nd in Starlight for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 24.08 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.