The Republic of West Ravayale is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its daily referendums, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, democratic population of 719 million West Ravayaleans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 61.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving West Ravayalean economy, worth 57.4 trillion vulpeses 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 dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 79,864 vulpeses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Invasive drug testing is now performed at elementary school sports days, modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes, senior executives have become freelance basket-weavers in search of less stress and better work-life balance, and ministers browse Alright! magazine for fashion tips. Crime is totally unknown. West Ravayale's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

West Ravayale is ranked 35,900^th in the world and 859^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 5,651.01 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.