The Science-Funding Authority of Wheath is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Third Director with an even hand, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, state-planned economy, and compulsory vegetarianism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 10.246 billion Wheathites have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government prioritizes Education, with Defense, Administration, and Industry also on the agenda, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kapstone. The average income tax rate is 89.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Wheathi economy, worth a remarkable 2,078 trillion ꕥ Amaranthine Fleurs 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 large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. 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 an amazing 202,899 ꕥ Amaranthine Fleurs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Emergency responders spend more time in the air than giving air, people believe that if you teach a man to fish he won't buy fish from you any more, shoppers carry protractors to verify their produce, and it's all white elephants on parade. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Wheath's national animal is the Neades strandbeest monster, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Agnostic Atheism.

Wheath is ranked 11,677^th in the world and 11^th in The Amaranthine Isles for Most Cultured, scoring 107 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.