The People's Republic of The Wasp Nest is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sting with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 1.866 billion Wasp Nestians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Nest. The average income tax rate is 51.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Wasp Nestian economy, worth 81.7 trillion Red Cents a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Retail. Average income is 43,776 Red Cents, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hordes of unemployed lumberjacks have resorted to cutting down utility poles to satisfy their cravings, one does not simply walk into the tundra, high-income earners pay a 100% tax rate, and the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Wasp Nest's national animal is the Wasp, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Swarming.

The Wasp Nest is ranked 100,195^th in the world and 1,090^th in the West Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 2,007.39 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.