The Colony of The Island Of The West is a very large, socially progressive nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 151 million Westians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Spirituality. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.3%.

The very strong Westy economy, worth 8.90 trillion Wooden Statues a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Retail, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 58,963 Wooden Statues, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 228,676 per year while the poor average 10,413, a ratio of 22.0 to 1.

Open-casket funerals are avoided at all cost, all writing must pass a censorship board before being allowed on the shelves, there's no representation without taxation, and nano-Flingels are the current fad sweeping the nation. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The Island Of The West's national animal is the Flingel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Island Of The West is ranked 194,714^th in the world and 4,040^th in The North Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 1.59 kickbacks per hour.