The Classic Sound of Wilhelm Scream is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sheb Wooley with an even hand, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, hatred of cheese, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 29.091 billion Wilhelm Screamers are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Foley Stage. The average income tax rate is 76.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Wilhelm Screamian economy, worth a remarkable 1,443 trillion effects a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 49,627 effects, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Recent protests against birds flying too low have resulted in bloodshed, the slowest students feel vaguely targeted by their Mendelian Inheritance coursework, students do more community service than homework, and the "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making Wilhelm Screamers any less frightened. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wilhelm Scream's national animal is the pigeon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is action sequence.

Wilhelm Scream is ranked 305,489^th in the world and 13^th in God Only Knows Why This Region Exists for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -14.17 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.