The Sylvan Kingdom of Willow Gate is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Benevolent Monocrat with an even hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 4.854 billion Gateholders are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of King's Eye. The average income tax rate is 97.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Willow Gatean economy, worth 535 trillion lycan florins a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is an impressive 110,283 lycan florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program, mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation, all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, and only clowns with PhDs from clown college can advise Benevolent Monocrat on Willow Gate's coulrophobia epidemic. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Willow Gate's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Willow Gate is ranked 259,986^th in the world and 6,881^st in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -16.55 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.