The People's Republic of Wiranath is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 14.188 billion Wiranathians 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 enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Wiranathian economy, worth a remarkable 3,006 trillion Wirans a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 211,885 Wirans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader has been known to make speeches in fishing waders, the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees, protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, and intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works. Crime is totally unknown. Wiranath's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Religion.

Wiranath is ranked 2,186^th in the world and 48^th in The East Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 786.28 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.