The New Horizons of Sandy Wilds is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, frequent executions, and parental licensing program. The compassionate, cynical population of 2.041 billion Sandy Wildsians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 40.7%.

The powerhouse Sandy Wildsian economy, worth 179 trillion stardusts a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 88,188 stardusts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

A positive pregnancy test doubles as a visa, odysseying merchant sailors swear that they've heard sirens in the western seas, a weakened police force struggles to maintain law and order, and father-son fishing trips have been banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sandy Wilds's national animal is the moonlark, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Sandy Wilds is ranked 279,080^th in the world and 794^th in Horizon for Most Cultured, scoring 57 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.