The 7 rings of Witchcraft and Sorcery is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Mayor Cardinal with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 13.157 billion listeners hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Night Vale. The average income tax rate is 93.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Witchcraft and Sorceryian economy, worth a remarkable 1,687 trillion cosines a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 128,259 cosines, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Movie references are legally admissible in court, the Witchcraft and Sorceryian Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances, children are raised bilingual from an early age, and Members of Parliament operate under a PAYE scheme. Crime is totally unknown. Witchcraft and Sorcery's national animal is the totally not an angel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is never looking back.

Witchcraft and Sorcery is ranked 5,576^th in the world and 71^st in 10000 Islands for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 93.75 Effective Tax Rate.