The Democratic Republic of Watao is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Lase Saleberojama with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 2.368 billion Wataoans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Erexene. The average income tax rate is 90.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Wataoan economy, worth 155 trillion tomas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is 65,847 tomas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

In musicals everybody's a little bit racist, excited shovel-bearing geeks wander the countryside, the government prides itself on being smug and condescending to idiots, and the "fire department" is often called to remove offensive religious texts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Watao's national animal is the earthworm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Wataoan Galunism.

Watao is ranked 65,566^th in the world and 42^nd in The Western Isles for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 4,334.65 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.