The United States of South Wheatley is a titanic, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 18.62 billion South Wheatleyians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.9%.

The thriving South Wheatleyian economy, worth a remarkable 1,073 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 57,659 dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 204,096 per year while the poor average 11,761, a ratio of 17.4 to 1.

Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. South Wheatley's national animal is the goat, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

South Wheatley is ranked 228,639^th in the world and 65^th in Emirates of Futurnia for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 1,102.34 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.