The Sylvan Kingdom of Willow Gate is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Queen with an iron fist, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 8.54 billion Gateholders are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of King's Eye. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Willow Gatean economy, worth a remarkable 1,070 trillion lycans a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 125,352 lycans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Stealing from a clothesline is a serious offence, Brancaland has gifted over nine thousand putrid moose carcasses to Willow Gate as a reminder of their "special relationship", debates on whether toilet seats should be left up or down are increasingly commonplace, and the paparazzi publicize Royal scandals with the utmost delight. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Willow Gate's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Willow Gate is ranked 2,306^th in the world and 39^th in the West Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 139.7 law-abiding acts per hour.