The People's Republic of West Rhode Islands is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Rodrigo Guimarães with an even hand, and renowned for its digital currency, public floggings, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical population of 2.565 billion West Rhodesians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rhodes. The average income tax rate is 73.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient West Rhode Islandsian economy, worth 369 trillion West Dracmas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 144,230 West Dracmas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Power to the people comes from the barrel of a gun, hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", document forgery is a critical skill for would-be politicians, and foreign policy is mostly just to smile and hope for the best. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. West Rhode Islands's national animal is the seagull, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

West Rhode Islands is ranked 304,183^rd in the world and 237^th in Covenant Shores for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -11.29 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.