The Republic of Westcoast is a large, safe nation, remarkable for its burgeoning bear population. The compassionate, devout population of 50 million Westcoastians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government prioritizes Education, with Welfare, Social Policy, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Environment and International Aid are ignored. The average income tax rate is 17.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Westcoastian economy, worth 2.26 trillion euros a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 45,160 euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Town welcome signs list corporate sponsors, teachers are skilled at leaving no evidence of child cruelty, tourists call Westcoastian beach towns "the fine coastline", and hockey players who drop their gloves discard them on abandoned baseball mitts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Westcoast's national animal is the bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Westcoast is ranked 80,711^th in the world and 751^st in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 98.04 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.