The State of Simon Williams is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its absence of drug laws and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 45.537 billion Simon Williamsians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Central Heights. The average income tax rate is 46.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Simon Williamsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,554 trillion betales a year, is quite specialized and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 34,146 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is voluntary, organised sports are frowned upon as frivolous, the people are famous throughout the region for their bleached-white teeth, and Simon Williams has designated Central Heights as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Simon Williams's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Simon Williams is ranked 135,772^nd in the world and 1^st in Simon Williams for Nicest Citizens, with 12 average smiles per day.