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The Community of Winglick is a huge, safe nation, ruled by cat with an even hand, and notable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 844 million Winglickians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of maus. The average income tax rate is 44.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Winglickian economy, worth 49.8 trillion mices a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 59,023 mices, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Genocide is seen as a topic best avoided in history lessons, nothing is beneath the government after it has extracted all the oil, crime is on the rise as DNA sampling has been all but outlawed, and droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Winglick's national animal is the cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Winglick is ranked 131,127^th in the world and 282^nd in Starlight for Highest Average Incomes, with 59,023.31 Standard Monetary Units.