The United States of Wardland is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and absence of drug laws. The democratic population of 550 million Wardlandians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 32.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Wardlandian economy, worth 18.7 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 33,942 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government employees have reverted to carrier pigeon due to never-ending virus scans, returning vacationers often find that their property is now a construction site, board shorts have replaced board rooms, and the country spends an increasingly large amount of its budget on grand scale projects of pharaonic proportions in a bid to boost the economy. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wardland's national animal is the giraffe , which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Wardland is ranked 169,273^rd in the world and 4^th in Scioto County CTC for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 57.62 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.