The Sylvan Kingdom of Willow Gate is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Queen with an iron fist, and notable for its conspicuous electricity pylons, hatred of cheese, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 13.367 billion Gateholders are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of King's Eye. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Willow Gatean economy, worth a remarkable 1,912 trillion lycans a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 143,079 lycans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bronze and marble supplies are running low as sculptors depict full-figured subjects, in distant lands the nation is known as a lovely place that was even better in the good old days, politicians tend to speak more loudly and slowly these days, and any secret that gets off someone's chest is promptly replaced. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Willow Gate's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Willow Gate is ranked 1,382^nd in the world and 9^th in the West Pacific for Most Influential, scoring 70,236 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.