The Sylvan Kingdom of Willow Gate is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Queen with an iron fist, and notable for its national health service, hatred of cheese, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 13.666 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it 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 99.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Willow Gatean economy, worth a remarkable 1,992 trillion lycans a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Beef-Based Agriculture industry. Average income is an impressive 145,820 lycans, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Stolen Reuben sandwiches are met with detailed and thorough police investigations, a government program is underway to revitalize Willow Gate's beaches, terrorists are on a first name basis with the officials that stamp their passports, and nobody ever questions the unquestioned rule that questions must always be asked. 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 679^th in the world and 14^th in the West Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 98.88 on the Human Development Index.