The Kingdom of Willow Gate is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 459 million Willow Gateans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 77.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Willow Gatean economy, worth 25.2 trillion florins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 55,002 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Editorials that criticize the government are legally obligated to display the "pants on fire" warning, children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife, calling out of the blue has become taboo, and former state leaders include a TV comic and a cowboy actor. 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 15,843^rd in the world and 298^th in the West Pacific for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 77.94 Effective Tax Rate.