The Delicate Sound of Thunder of The Gates of Delirium is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Westwind with an iron fist, and notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, public floggings, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 30.616 billion Delirians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Path of Glory. The average income tax rate is 65.1%.

The very strong The Gates of Delirian economy, worth a remarkable 2,359 trillion Fugits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 77,082 Fugits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

It is a crime to operate a combine harvester while intoxicated, getting a haircut is a punishable offence, country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized, and tourists are forbidden to enter Native The Gates of Delirian lands. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Gates of Delirium's national animal is the Coiled Snake, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Church of Westwind.

The Gates of Delirium is ranked 79,084^th in the world and 7^th in The Watchtower for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 3,099.23 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.