The Communities of Love And Hatred is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Web of Assemblies with a fair hand, and notable for its pith helmet sales, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.534 billion Lovtredians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Origin. The average income tax rate is 93.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lovtredian economy, worth 515 trillion Loves a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 145,863 Loves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, the national security service are a bunch of crooks, people seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy, and most ambassadors from Love And Hatred retire only a few years after being appointed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Love And Hatred's national animal is the Melanocor, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Love And Hatred is ranked 35,498^th in the world and 861^st in The North Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 34.88 flags saluted per person per day.