The Federation of Gewisse is a gargantuan, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 16.684 billion West Saxons are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Exeter. The average income tax rate is 84.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Gewissean economy, worth a remarkable 2,151 trillion Pounds a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 128,968 Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, breast milk is being redistributed from each according to their ability to each according to their need, school football matches are usually five-a-side, and no one is quite sure what many government officials look like. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gewisse's national animal is the Wyvern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gewisse is ranked 289,212^th in the world and 815^th in 10000 Islands for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -21.07 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.