The Grand Duchy of NewWessex is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its public floggings, compulsory vegetarianism, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 430 million Westsaxons are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fort Venta. The average income tax rate is 44.6%.

The sizeable but inefficient Westsaxon economy, worth 13.5 trillion Pounds a year, is quite specialized and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 31,389 Pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.5 times as much as the poorest.

Only criminals carry guns, NewWessex has designated Fort Venta as its capital city, jail house rock has been replaced with jail house golden oldies, and citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NewWessex's national animal is the Swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

NewWessex is ranked 248,526^th in the world and 4^th in Union of Sociopaths for Smartest Citizens, with 5.48 quips per hour.