The Commonwealth of Wallsocket is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 3.921 billion Wallsocketites are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.1%.

The very strong Wallsocketite economy, worth 226 trillion horseshoes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Soda Sales, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 57,798 horseshoes, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 272,304 per year while the poor average 7,284, a ratio of 37.4 to 1.

Employees are told they can avoid traffic jams by starting work at 4 AM, would-be mescaline users often describe a crawling sensation on their skin, the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned, and Wallsocketites are regularly fired for looking at MyFace during their lunch breaks. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Wallsocket's national animal is the horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Wallsocket is ranked 110,307^th in the world and 1^st in Wallsocket for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 3,012.95 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.