The Republic of Libate is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Prime Minister Velma Mincit with a fair hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, ritual sacrifices, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 33.858 billion Libateans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Olland. The average income tax rate is 73.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Libatean economy, worth a remarkable 3,798 trillion Silver Dollars a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 112,197 Silver Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Art is not complete without a touch of alizarin blood and titanium sweat, the nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world, woe-is-me olympics is the fastest growing collegiate sport, and exiles see that the line where the sky meets the sea is just clouds and rain. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Libate's national animal is the Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Libate is ranked 35,637^th in the world and 25^th in The Union of Democratic States for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 227.56 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.