The Classic Sound of Wilhelm Scream is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Sheb Wooley with an even hand, and notable for its closed borders, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 23.947 billion Wilhelm Screamers are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Foley Stage. The average income tax rate is 71.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Wilhelm Screamian economy, worth a remarkable 1,286 trillion effects a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 53,740 effects, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elected officials often serve for decades in a single term, sleep-deprived officials are known to collapse after late night revision for their examinations, copyright laws have been abolished, and autopsies often involve only cursory examination. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wilhelm Scream's national animal is the pigeon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is action sequence.

Wilhelm Scream is ranked 247,820^th in the world and 12^th in God Only Knows Why This Region Exists for Most Primitive, scoring -144.75 on the Scary Big Number Scale.