The Kingdom of Lingering Will is a mammoth, safe nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 9.238 billion Lingering Willians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Heart. The average income tax rate is 10.3%.

The strong Lingering Willian economy, worth 681 trillion yen a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 73,744 yen, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

Everybody's got wood thanks to Leader, a major religion has been named as Lingering Will's national religion, Leader has just been declared ruler of Lingering Will in an international press conference, and teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers. Crime is totally unknown. Lingering Will's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lingering Will is ranked 78,558^th in the world and 1^st in Fenris for Highest Food Quality, scoring 29.6 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.