The Truly Free State of Western Scientificum is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Nobody with a fair hand, and renowned for its flagrant waste-dumping, vat-grown people, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless, devout population of 25.776 billion Western Scientists live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The minute, corrupt, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Administration, although Industry is also considered important, while Welfare and Healthcare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Hut. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Western Scientist economy, worth a remarkable 3,702 trillion Shiny Rocks a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 143,649 Shiny Rocks, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 873,651 per year while the poor average 10,481, a ratio of 83.3 to 1.

Politicians have tenure, the government is ignoring the latest terrorist atrocities in The Hut for fear of causing a fuss, museums offer moralization or your money back, and it's rumored that Marche Noire knows what the nation's generals eat for breakfast. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Western Scientificum's national animal is the Great Silver Bird, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is a minor religion.

Western Scientificum is ranked 308,367^th in the world and 2,450^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Developed, scoring 38.98 on the Human Development Index.