The Red Metropole of Woodsmere is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by St Patrick with an even hand, and notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, infamous sell-swords, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 1.531 billion Meares are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wassenstad. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 31.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Woodsmerean economy, worth 198 trillion metrons a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 129,579 metrons, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 538,439 per year while the poor average 20,414, a ratio of 26.4 to 1.

Millions of metrons have been thrown into a project to find the cure for Mad Wassen Hare Disease, video evidence of cruel animal experiments tends to be of poor quality, military officers are given medals for disobeying orders, and the arms industry is backed by government subsidies and harsh anti-protest laws are in place. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Woodsmere's national animal is the Wassen Hare, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Woodsmere is ranked 31,740^th in the world and 7^th in Metropolitan Union for Most Secular, with 34.47 Atheism Rate.