The Commonwealth of Southwestern Islands Republic is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Triumvirate Interim Council with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 2.001 billion Southwesterners enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kalapa Raya. The average income tax rate is 90.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Southwesterner economy, worth 218 trillion Southwestern Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 109,161 Southwestern Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Southwesterners refer to transgender people with insults instead of pronouns, the importance of winning Olympic gold medals is indoctrinated from an early age, foreign 'investors' have been taking a great interest in the new secret shuttle, and organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Southwestern Islands Republic's national animal is the Southwestern Dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Southwestern Islands Republic is ranked 296,488^th in the world and 8^th in The Etherian International for Most Conservative, scoring 21.58 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.