The Sylvan Kingdom of Willow Gate is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Benevolent Monocrat with an even hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, anti-smoking policies, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 4.39 billion Gateholders are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of King's Eye. The average income tax rate is 96.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Willow Gatean economy, worth 468 trillion lycan florins a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is an impressive 106,625 lycan florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mathematicians are hated by children across the country, academics have a bone to pick with free market entrepreneurs, facial disfigurement is a leading cause of supervillainy, and noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Willow Gate's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Willow Gate is ranked 3,758^th in the world and 62^nd in the West Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 16,334.63 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.