The Colony of WhenStudios is a very large, efficient nation, notable for its digital currency, ritual sacrifices, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 106 million WhenStudiosians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 19.8%.

The powerhouse WhenStudiosian economy, worth 7.73 trillion BIG ISSUES a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Automobile Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 72,914 BIG ISSUES, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 210,483 per year while the poor average 20,042, a ratio of 10.5 to 1.

The weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme, war vets look after war animals, students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak, and royalist is the most offensive slur in the WhenStudiosian language. Crime is a problem. WhenStudios's national animal is the Rabbit, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

WhenStudios is ranked 117,918^th in the world and 1^st in Mogussian Isles for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 1,180.89 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.