The Faint Spectral Winds of Wanoria is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Letun Marigeux with an even hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, national health service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 10.5 billion Wanorians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Remacy. The average income tax rate is 91.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Wanorian economy, worth a remarkable 1,683 trillion pillnoias a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 160,324 pillnoias, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bald-headed monks sit around the National Meditation Park looking smugly content, the stratosphere is full of "silent but deadly" attacks from Letun Marigeux's rear echelons, tradesmen will knock 10% off their fees if customers pay cash, and the only thing that can pin down a "superhero" is red tape. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wanoria's national animal is the bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Wanoria is ranked 11,984^th in the world and 533^rd in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 371.68 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.