The Empire of West Tyland is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its national health service, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 340 million West Tylandians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of West Tyland City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 39.5%.

The strong West Tylandian economy, worth 28.7 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 84,504 dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 317,382 per year while the poor average 15,713, a ratio of 20.2 to 1.

Violence is always the answer in West Tyland, employers are keenest on employees who lack family values, businesses are abandoning the city centre because of the lack of transport connections, and it is said that a West Tylandian woman's work is never done. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. West Tyland's national animal is the eagle.

West Tyland is ranked 89,463^rd in the world and 1,951^st in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 67.35 law-abiding acts per hour.