The Most Holy Empire of Westkapelle is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Pope Pius X with an even hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 2.425 billion Westkapellens are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Oldenburg. The average income tax rate is 69.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Westkapellen economy, worth 185 trillion Westkapellen Euros a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 76,423 Westkapellen Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every week is blindness awareness week, military equipment is being auctioned off to extend comatose centenarians' lives, hordes of unemployed lumberjacks have resorted to cutting down utility poles to satisfy their cravings, and sullen teenagers in bright orange 'community payback' onesies can be seen picking litter at the roadside. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Westkapelle's national animal is the Lamel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Westkapelle is ranked 165,359^th in the world and 751^st in Europe for Most Extreme, scoring 17.76 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.