The Commonwealth of Latstat is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory military service, and digital currency. The compassionate, democratic population of 599 million Latstatians 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 70.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Latstatian economy, worth 45.5 trillion Credits 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Information Technology, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 75,943 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Birth rates have hit an all-time low, the government subsidizes those who produce the worst results, foreigners with shady pasts are fleeing the country, and displaying impatience in any form lands you a spot on the LIA watchlist. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Latstat's national animal is the Tailor Bird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Latstat is ranked 283,336^th in the world and 500^th in Starlight for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -8.85 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.