The Gory Days of Wight is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by The Gentlemen Interregnum with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The democratic population of 25.848 billion Wightlingfolk enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rime. The average income tax rate is 74.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Wittish economy, worth 802 trillion Blood Shillings a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 31,047 Blood Shillings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cheese has become the new icon of political dissent, online tourism reviews of Wight are suspiciously positive and amazingly similar, 'unconventional' weaponry has been banned, and Members of Parliament are often found living in cardboard boxes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wight's national animal is the Wight Algae Bloom, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Shambolicism.

Wight is ranked 14,617^th in the world and 14^th in Anaia for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 4,143.4 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.