The People's Republic of Lortonica is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Menachem Cohen with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.719 billion Lortonicans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Williamsburg. The average income tax rate is 75.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Lortonican economy, worth 168 trillion Fuluses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is 97,921 Fuluses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Search-and-rescue organisations are the biggest employer in the country, Super Barry Brothers is the most popular video game in the nation, literally voiceless people are unable to protest when food and water are denied to them, and the inchworm that measured the marigolds is six feet under. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lortonica's national animal is the Sea Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is State Atheism.

Lortonica is ranked 31,226^th in the world and 402^nd in The Communist Bloc for Lowest Crime Rates, with 84.64 law-abiding acts per hour.