The Jingoistic States of Wolf 48 is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its public floggings, zero percent divorce rate, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed population of 1.284 billion Wolf 48ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Environment, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 22.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Wolf 48ian economy, worth 42.7 trillion rupees a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Automobile Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 33,234 rupees, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Schoolchildren are divided over Leader's "Why Tigers are Cooler than Lions" speech, the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen, government employees have reverted to carrier pigeon due to never-ending virus scans, and nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. Wolf 48's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Wolf 48 is ranked 53,092^nd in the world and 31^st in Wolf Card Farm Corporation for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 4,095.99 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.