The Fantastical Evening Star of -Layla- is a mammoth, genial nation, notable for its rum-swilling pirates, compulsory gun ownership, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, humorless population of 8.861 billion -Layla-ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 34.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The -Layla-ian economy, worth 550 trillion deniers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 62,114 deniers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Panels from bankrupt rooftop solar companies are used as props for sci-fi B-movies, all telephone traffic is monitored for 'national security reasons', only AIs know why the nation is rapidly increasing its semiconductor stockpile, and surveillance cameras are banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -Layla-'s national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

-Layla- is ranked 300,837^th in the world and 3,626^th in Remembrance for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring zero on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.