The Republic of World Assembly Legislative Archive is a very large, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 466 million World Assembly Legislative Archiveans live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The tiny, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.2%.

The thriving World Assembly Legislative Archivean economy, worth 37.5 trillion World Assembly Currencies a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Basket Weaving, and Information Technology. Average income is 80,364 World Assembly Currencies, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 454,857 per year while the poor average 6,956, a ratio of 65.4 to 1.

Children who drop their ice cream are fined for littering, cloning has been banned, going on a diet invalidates your passport, and internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered World Assembly Legislative Archivean weed picker are way up. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. World Assembly Legislative Archive's national animal is the World Assembly Member, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

World Assembly Legislative Archive is ranked 50,687^th in the world and 68^th in DogeLand for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 90.83 on the Bus Surprisal Index.