The Republic of Federated Westamerica is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by The Executive Minister with an even hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 7.23 billion Federated Westamericans 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, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Executive District. The average income tax rate is 94.8%.

The powerhouse Federated Westamerican economy, worth 702 trillion Cascadian Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 97,153 Cascadian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

You can't put down the nation's attitude to pet health, the richest individuals apparently buy nothing but noodles and toilet paper, ignorance is considered a politically desirable quality, and military equipment is being auctioned off to extend comatose centenarians' lives. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Federated Westamerica's national animal is the Orca, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Orca-ism.

Federated Westamerica is ranked 4,394^th in the world and 239^th in The North Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2,503.58 pounds of wildlife per square mile.