The Free Land of Wisteria and Surrounding Territories is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, frequent executions, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 532 million Wisterians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wisteria City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Wisterian economy, worth 58.3 trillion Francs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 109,596 Francs, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 489,886 per year while the poor average 15,206, a ratio of 32.2 to 1.

Female newsreaders distract the nation by breastfeeding during broadcast, an increasingly villainous series of sports coaches are demanding the national mascot's true identity, inter-species marriages are ignored by the government, and ships no longer sail as no one wants to encounter Wisterian pirates. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Wisteria and Surrounding Territories's national animal is the Magical Hypnosis Border Collie of Doom, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Wisteria and Surrounding Territories is ranked 47,233^rd in the world and 56^th in Nordic Lands for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 4,873.39 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.