The Classic Sound of Wilhelm Scream is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sheb Wooley with an even hand, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 23.994 billion Wilhelm Screamers are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Foley Stage. The average income tax rate is 71.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Wilhelm Screamian economy, worth a remarkable 1,286 trillion effects a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 53,602 effects, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sleep-deprived officials are known to collapse after late night revision for their examinations, copyright laws have been abolished, autopsies often involve only cursory examination, and thieves find battery shops juicier targets than banks. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wilhelm Scream's national animal is the pigeon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is action sequence.

Wilhelm Scream is ranked 25,012^th in the world and 2^nd in God Only Knows Why This Region Exists for Highest Food Quality, scoring 97.58 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.