The Silver Shamrock Novelties of Southern Woods is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its frequent executions, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.534 billion Southern Woodsians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 70.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Southern Woodsian economy, worth 47.7 trillion Deliks 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 led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 31,064 Deliks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The industries of Southern Woods are coughing all the way to the bank, the news is showing footage of Leader bullying an old man to the point of tears, the Counter-Terrorism Unit has been nicknamed "Big Bad Wolf" for its tendency towards urban demolition, and the army is spending millions cloning khaki-colored dinosaurs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Southern Woods's national animal is the Woodsian Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Southern Woods is ranked 303,573^rd in the world and 37^th in MJT for Most Developed, scoring 49.18 on the Human Development Index.