The Sylvan Kingdom of Willow Gate is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Queen with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 8.61 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, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of King's Eye. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Willow Gatean economy, worth a remarkable 1,080 trillion lycans a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is an impressive 125,480 lycans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Streaming video is considered to be a myth by most citizens, the nation has an international reputation for compassion, it's illegal to be caught on tape, and women give birth underneath so many blankets that the doctor can't feel the bump. 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 289,518^th in the world and 3,726^th in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -23.82 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.