The Res Publica Aeterna of Wama is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Chairman Gnodez Oam with an even hand, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, national health service, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The compassionate, hard-working, devout population of 2.057 billion Wamen are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed, including voting. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rik. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 62.8%.

The all-consuming Waman economy, worth 182 trillion waegfs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 88,607 waegfs, with the richest citizens earning 8.5 times as much as the poorest.

The tenet of free speech is held dear, roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews, military pilots spend more time scraping feathers off their engines than flying their aircraft, and food voucher forgeries are causing headaches for the police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wama's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Wama is ranked 44,549^th in the world and 2,321^st in Lazarus for Nicest Citizens, with 18.02 average smiles per day.