The Armed Republic of Lasombraa is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.783 billion Slaves are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order and Spirituality are also considered important, while International Aid and Welfare receive no funds. The average income tax rate is 68.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Lasombraan economy, worth 100 trillion Drugs 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 36,048 Drugs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The teaching of evolution has been banned, environmentalists have found an unusual ally in soldiers of fortune, newborns are being raised as mindless killing machines, and the military has gone fission for more funding. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Lasombraa's national animal is the Human, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lasombraa is ranked 320,080^th in the world and 352^nd in Sertia for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring -9.49 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.