The Academic Dominion of Woollevia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by His Royal Swellness with an iron fist, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, vat-grown people, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 33.551 billion Woollevians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry and Administration are also considered important, while Social Policy and Environment aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Woolham. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 81.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Woollevian economy, worth an astonishing 22,777 trillion lugnuts a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is a breathtaking 678,883 lugnuts, with the richest citizens earning 6.6 times as much as the poorest.

Pollsters are out of a job as elections have been cancelled, every political party claims that their platform is based on divine revelation, Tesco was recently named as the new national treasurer, and descriptions of properties as "a stone's throw from the city centre" require a trebuchet to be true. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Woollevia's national animal is the kraken, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Our Lady of the Red Ball.

Woollevia is ranked 16,491^st in the world and 909^th in Balder for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 7,228.21 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.