The Red Revenants of Westgeist is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, keen interest in outer space, and smutty television. The compassionate population of 13.896 billion Westgeistians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 77.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Westgeistian economy, worth 509 trillion invisible coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery. Average income is 36,690 invisible coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

The lactose-intolerant are force-fed cheese products with predictably gassy results, the nation's prisons are touted as the best weight loss programs money can't buy, a blood-red mark on the doorframe means a building must be passed over for destruction, and soldiers have swapped their uniforms for prisonwear. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Westgeist's national animal is the poltergeist, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Westgeist is ranked 42,556^th in the world and 71^st in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 169.13 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.