The New Horizons of Sandy Wilds is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, disturbing lack of elderly people, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical population of 2.165 billion Sandy Wildsians 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, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 37.2%.

The powerhouse Sandy Wildsian economy, worth 207 trillion stardusts a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 95,634 stardusts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.9 times as much as the poorest.

Clergy who start talking about politics are forced to take a holy vow of silence, contrails and thunderous rumbles have returned to the skies above, only the rich can afford the latest medical innovations, and soldiers with colourful mohawks make themselves perfect targets for snipers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sandy Wilds's national animal is the moonlark, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Sandy Wilds is ranked 35,924^th in the world and 125^th in Horizon for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 60,058.42 Standard Monetary Units.