The State of Laminatota is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, irreverence towards religion, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 39.817 billion Laminatotans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westminster. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.8%.

The thriving Laminatotan economy, worth a remarkable 1,776 trillion betales a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. Average income is 44,624 betales, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 186,587 per year while the poor average 6,956, a ratio of 26.8 to 1.

Foreign visitors who show an interest in Laminatotan politics are immediately deported, returning vacationers often find that their property is now a construction site, the deaf are perplexed when the weather report tells them that the wind will be "bringing some rain along the Nazi ghosts", and child adoption by homosexual couples has been outlawed. Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Laminatota's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Laminatota is ranked 53,466^th in the world and 1^st in Laminatota for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 4,582.56 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.