The Wicked Realms of Wicko is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by the Warmage with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, vat-grown people, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 31.663 billion Wicked are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The tiny, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Great Coven. The average income tax rate is 3.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Wicked economy, worth an astonishing 10,652 trillion нехs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an amazing 336,448 нехs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children grow up believing the sun to be a myth, electrocution deaths among computer technicians are at an all-time high, a milk bath costs more than bathing in money, and ADHD now stands for Attention Distracted by Hardware Devices. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Wicko's national animal is the Hissing Cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is the Weirding Way.

Wicko is ranked 7,360^th in the world and 6^th in New Coalition of Nations for Lowest Crime Rates, with 107.33 law-abiding acts per hour.