The Schäl Veedel of Lating is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Fiese Möpp with a fair hand, and notable for its punitive income tax rates, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 22.943 billion Latingsers are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gütersloh. The average income tax rate is 95.0%.

The all-consuming Latingian economy, worth a remarkable 2,509 trillion Fönnefs a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 109,400 Fönnefs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling", students memorise knock-knock jokes for their mandatory twice-a-term Comedy Examinations, artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings, and back-alley circumcision clinics are popping up all over the nation. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lating's national animal is the Lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lating is ranked 334,101^st in the world and 18,566^th in Chicken overlords for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -11.49 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.