The Federal Republic of Lolder is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by its Chancellor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, pith helmet sales, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic population of 23.939 billion Lolderians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Corbenic. The average income tax rate is 77.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lolderian economy, worth a remarkable 3,288 trillion Loldollars a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 137,352 Loldollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's counterintelligence budget is all up in the air, a primitive society is being eroded as its youth flock to the modern world, polygraphs are relegated to the dungeon exhibit in castle museums, and the Great Pyramid of Corbenic can be seen from miles away. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lolder's national animal is the Scorpion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Theory of Evolution.

Lolder is ranked 7,780^th in the world and 7^th in International Northwestern Union for Highest Food Quality, scoring 177.69 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.