The Community of W e s t E g g is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 608 million Gatsby Goons are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gatsby's House. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.5%.

The very strong Gatsby Goon economy, worth 36.8 trillion Gatzes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. Average income is 60,473 Gatzes, with the richest citizens earning 9.9 times as much as the poorest.

Family isn't who you're born with but who you abandon in foreign countries, the government believes there is no problem that raising taxes won't fix, people often feel unbalanced by their daily commute, and Mr Happy's Funland has just been named W e s t E g g's new capital. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. W e s t E g g's national animal is the Daisy, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

W e s t E g g is ranked 117,407^th in the world and 88^th in Federation of Martian Colonies for Most Patriotic, with 15.67 flags saluted per person per day.