The Grand Duchy of Wollastonite is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, keen interest in outer space, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 15.812 billion Wollastoniteans 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 large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Magnesium. The average income tax rate is 94.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Wollastonitean economy, worth a remarkable 2,361 trillion Silicas a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 149,348 Silicas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Jennifer Government is a bestseller, the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies, landless farmers wander forlornly in the government's many national parks, and the comic book series 'Leader and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller. Crime is totally unknown. Wollastonite's national animal is the Sloth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Wollastonite is ranked 33,521^st in the world and 1,880^th in Balder for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,302.91 on the Gilded Widget Scale.