The Goober of New Westmore is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Esther Lynn with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 3.726 billion Westmorians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dalesburg City. The average income tax rate is 92.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Westmorian economy, worth 456 trillion Westmorian Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 122,396 Westmorian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Autocrats are persona non grata, the Westmorian Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances, environmentalists have found an unusual ally in soldiers of fortune, and aeroplane cockpits no longer have altimeters or airspeed indicators. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Westmore's national animal is the Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Sanguis Catholicism.

New Westmore is ranked 17,504^th in the world and 398^th in The East Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 302.25 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.