The Colony of WhenStudios is a very large, efficient nation, renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, ubiquitous missile silos, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 117 million WhenStudiosians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 22.2%.

The all-consuming WhenStudiosian economy, worth 8.30 trillion BIG ISSUES a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 70,957 BIG ISSUES, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 217,754 per year while the poor average 17,886, a ratio of 12.2 to 1.

Sales of pregnancy testing kits are booming, machine-peeled candied grapes come in individual packaging for the busy commuter, litter collection has replaced fast food as the most popular after-school job, and disadvantaged youths often commit felonies to enhance their educational prospects. Crime is moderate. WhenStudios's national animal is the Rabbit, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

WhenStudios is ranked 200,712^th in the world and 3^rd in Mogussian Isles for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -2.83 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.