The Puppet Tenders of The Wax Lion is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Jaye Tyler with an even hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, daily referendums, and national health service. The compassionate population of 32.85 billion Wax Lionians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Niagra Falls. The average income tax rate is 92.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Wax Lionian economy, worth a remarkable 3,218 trillion smooshed faces a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 97,973 smooshed faces, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Recreational drug businesses are regularly pruned if they grow above the maximum legal size, census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, candlelit dinners are less romantic with a flickering LED, and it is universally agreed that the first 31 issues are the only ones with humor and charm (The Wax Lion has found 2 easter eggs). Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Wax Lion's national animal is the brass monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Wax Lion is ranked 283,861^st in the world and 25^th in Wonderfalls Gift Emporium for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.59 kickbacks per hour.