The State of Piper Wellington is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 21.061 billion Piper Wellingtonians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The tiny, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Welfare, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.9%.

The thriving Piper Wellingtonian economy, worth 649 trillion betales a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Soda Sales. Average income is 30,846 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 87,072 per year while the poor average 8,747, a ratio of 10.0 to 1.

Voting is voluntary, military funding has been stripped back, the tenet of free speech is held dear, and the government is avowedly atheist. Crime is a serious problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Piper Wellington's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Piper Wellington is ranked 261,837^th in the world and 478^th in Ancient Lands for Lowest Crime Rates, with 44.57 law-abiding acts per hour.