The Democratic States of Westerhold is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Marcus Merides with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, daily referendums, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.146 billion Westerholdians 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 Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Starhaven. The average income tax rate is 56.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Westerholdian economy, worth 629 trillion Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 122,252 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Kids who move from attending a public school in the city to the country often struggle in goat milking class, the nation's democracy attracts huddled masses yearning to breathe free, blue sky thinkers are reminded that the firmament is actually more of a grey-ish colour, and blood stains the floors of the execution room and the hands of the state. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Westerhold's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Westerhold is ranked 47,855^th in the world and 1,419^th in The North Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,068.27 on the Gilded Widget Scale.