The Federal Republic of Lion345 is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads, zero percent divorce rate, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 512 million Lion345ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 37.1%.

The very strong Lion345ian economy, worth 30.5 trillion catnips 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, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, 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 59,643 catnips, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 226,714 per year while the poor average 10,880, a ratio of 20.8 to 1.

Helicopter parenting is on the rise, back-alley circumcision clinics are popping up all over the nation, immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites, and policies are debated via video essays and tier lists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lion345's national animal is the Meowing Cats, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Lion345 is ranked 103,175^th in the world and 2^nd in Cherkoogia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 94.5 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.