The Northern Peaks of Lao-Shan Lung is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Queen Lao Shan Lung with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, rampant corporate plagiarism, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 2.331 billion Lao-Shan Lungians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 72.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Lao-Shan Lungian economy, worth 365 trillion Scales a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 156,868 Scales, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.9 times as much as the poorest.

Bug burgers are extra crunchy, citizens try to pass off bottlecaps they found in their backyards as historical artifacts, 3D printed organs are a breath of new life for the sick and elderly, and building a phallus out of Minecraft blocks counts as indecent exposure. Crime is totally unknown. Lao-Shan Lung's national animal is the Lao-Shan Lung dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Lao-Shan Lung is ranked 304,356^th in the world and 8^th in Bazelgeuse for Most Conservative, scoring 17.08 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.