The Graduate School of The Wright Institute is a massive, socially progressive nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed population of 1.069 billion Wrighters enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berkeley. The average income tax rate is 26.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Wrighter economy, worth 36.7 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Automobile Manufacturing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 34,362 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, the tenet of free speech is held dear, blind students are at a disadvantage now that test papers printed in braille have been discontinued, and The Wright Institute has designated Berkeley as its capital city. Crime is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Wright Institute's national animal is the wombat.

The Wright Institute is ranked 230,159^th in the world and 321^st in California Colleges and Universities for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.