The Loving Couple of Whoa Crikey- is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Amber with an iron fist, and remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, triple-decker prams, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 8.795 billion Whoa Crikey-ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Slayground. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 62.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Whoa Crikey-ian economy, worth 921 trillion snails a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 104,776 snails, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 551,932 per year while the poor average 10,599, a ratio of 52.1 to 1.

Prosecutors routinely call transplant doctors as 'expert witnesses' in burglary cases, bilingual Whoa Crikey-ians are viewed with suspicion, the nation's new foreign policy of 'very disproportionate retribution' has its neighbors on edge, and epileptic patients switch their medications to whichever has a 'buy one get one free' offer. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Whoa Crikey-'s national animal is the owl, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Cards.

Whoa Crikey- is ranked 85,511^th in the world and 3^rd in The Bongos United for Largest Populations, with 8.79 billion capita.