The Republic of Lascandra is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by President Naomi Stagmunt with an even hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, national health service, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, hard-working population of 8.878 billion Lascandrans enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nikipole. The average income tax rate is 77.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lascandran economy, worth a remarkable 1,409 trillion Lascandrish pounds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 158,759 Lascandrish pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, the Lascandra Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon', re-education centers are being added to most prisons, and they say that Lascandrans made a dessert and called it peace. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Lascandra's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lascandra is ranked 37,841^st in the world and 2^nd in Lascandrish alliance for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 4,327.87 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.