The Shadow Proxy of Wintermoot II is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 27.9 billion Wintermoot IIians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 37.9%.

The powerhouse Wintermoot IIian economy, worth a remarkable 2,292 trillion Wintreans a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 82,165 Wintreans, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 355,401 per year while the poor average 12,081, a ratio of 29.4 to 1.

Members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods, immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites, nuclear warheads are frequently launched into space as a warning to invading meteoroids, and stony-faced prosecutors play loud gangster rap music during court proceedings. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wintermoot II's national animal is the spider, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Wintermoot II is ranked 223,793^rd in the world and 15^th in New Hyperion for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -1.35 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.