The People's Republic of Wiranath is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 12.841 billion Wiranathians 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Wiranathian economy, worth a remarkable 2,709 trillion Wirans a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 211,003 Wirans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new, bins outnumber trees in city parks, the government is avowedly secular, and a traveller who once stubbed a toe on an Air Brancaland flight has been offered asylum. Crime is totally unknown. Wiranath's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Religion.

Wiranath is ranked 13,216^th in the world and 194^th in The East Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 7,914.76 on the Gilded Widget Scale.