The Sylvan Kingdom of Willow Gate is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Queen with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 13.879 billion Gateholders are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of King's Eye. The average income tax rate is 99.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Willow Gatean economy, worth a remarkable 2,042 trillion lycans a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 147,185 lycans, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tax revenue is often intercepted by international accountants before ever seeing the national treasury, populations of two-headed wolves have been found around recently-uncovered archaeological sites, soldiers on first dates introduce themselves only by their ranks and serial numbers, and the government maintains a Department of Skulduggery. 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 332,039^th in the world and 2,670^th in the West Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -14.86 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.