The Agony Sphere of Wetwork XIII is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Kranos Mournival with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, ritual sacrifices, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 11.889 billion Workillians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of War Forge. The average income tax rate is 75.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Wetworkian economy, worth 529 trillion Garrottes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 44,507 Garrottes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kids are told they can be whoever they want to be when they grow up, there are major delays at immigration checkpoints as travellers are forced to prove they belong to the Cult of Kranos the Ascended, the government decides its policies by observing the flight of birds, and travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wetwork XIII's national animal is the Flayed Victim, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is the Cult of Kranos the Ascended.

Wetwork XIII is ranked 104,849^th in the world and 5,965^th in Balder for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 2,497.49 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.