The Social Democracy of Westward Country is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Anton Lobos with a fair hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, parental licensing program, and frequent executions. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.131 billion Westlanders love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Garrison. The average income tax rate is 93.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Westlandish economy, worth 396 trillion WCDS a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 96,067 WCDS, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Extreme hiring regulations mean a job in Westward Country is often a lifetime appointment, a favorite "life hack" for gap year backpackers is to pretend to be homeless for government handouts, deceased politicians spam the public with thousands of AI-generated voicemails, and postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Westward Country's national animal is the Great Lands Coyote, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Westward Country is ranked 245,579^th in the world and 290^th in The Union of Democratic States for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -5.6 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.