The Happiness of Warm Gun is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 31.218 billion Warm Gunians 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Public Transport, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 68.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Warm Gunian economy, worth 670 trillion Mary Janes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 21,463 Mary Janes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates, a vast monorail network carries people all over the country, and political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Warm Gun's national animal is the White Rabbit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Warm Gun is ranked 247,184^th in the world and 5^th in In The Flesh for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -5.91 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.