The Woodhouse Sanctum of A Fine Mess is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its unlimited-speed roads, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The cynical, devout population of 24.449 billion Fine Messians 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 large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 64.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Fine Messian economy, worth a remarkable 2,146 trillion $$s a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Trout Farming, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 87,779 $$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

The government snoops on private internet connections, wedding bands come in pairs to form wedding manacles, the roads are notorious throughout the region for their peril, and the jails are alive with the sound of birdsong. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. A Fine Mess's national animal is the ^-^, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

A Fine Mess is ranked 39,469^th in the world and 1^st in Vorarlberg for Lowest Crime Rates, with 77.92 law-abiding acts per hour.