The Republic of Witch-Maw is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and restrictive gun laws. The cynical, devout population of 946 million Witch-Maw Players are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 75.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Witch-Mawian economy, worth 4.94 trillion Treasure Tokens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving and Book Publishing. Average income is 5,227 Treasure Tokens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sociologists ponder how baby-napped ethnic minority 'runaways' could have gone so bad so soon, the nation's infamous rickshaw ambulances often double as hearses, foreign nationals who stumble near Witch-Maw are harbingers of war, and taxi drivers seem less xenophobic these days. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Witch-Maw's national animal is the Creature Token, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Witch-Maw is ranked 236,724^th in the world and 331^st in Sertia for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 187.6 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.