The Colony of Weatherly is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.304 billion Weatherlyians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 94.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Weatherlyian economy, worth 885 trillion marks a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 121,208 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is ignoring the latest terrorist atrocities in Weatherly City for fear of causing a fuss, guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites, rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes, and army doctors who come under attack defend themselves by using stethoscopes like nunchaku. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Weatherly's national animal is the falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Weatherly is ranked 5,013^th in the world and 147^th in the South Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2,290.11 pounds of wildlife per square mile.