The Sylvan Kingdom of Willow Gate is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Queen with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 13.703 billion Gateholders are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of King's Eye. The average income tax rate is 99.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Willow Gatean economy, worth a remarkable 1,995 trillion lycans a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Beef-Based Agriculture industry. Average income is an impressive 145,658 lycans, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making Gateholders any less frightened, the government has spread itself thin, running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training, and foreign policy often involves bullwhips and leather. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Willow Gate's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Willow Gate is ranked 27,858^th in the world and 297^th in the West Pacific for Highest Average Incomes, with 145,658.76 Standard Monetary Units.