The Republic of Kleinwetterberg and Altwetterberg is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Mayor with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.227 billion Kleinwetterberg and Altwetterbergians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Academy of Wetterberg. The average income tax rate is 90.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kleinwetterberg and Altwetterbergian economy, worth 550 trillion gold coins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 130,253 gold coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sales of trenchcoats are on the rise, libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, children wondering what happens to pets after they die are shown where the compost heap is, and a passport is literally priceless. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kleinwetterberg and Altwetterberg's national animal is the minature donkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is none.

Kleinwetterberg and Altwetterberg is ranked 6,357^th in the world and 170^th in the South Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 58.24 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.