The Allied States of Lorynia is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and avant-garde cinema. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 9.961 billion Lorynians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 94.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Lorynian economy, worth a remarkable 1,070 trillion Larans a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 107,441 Larans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children searching for cat videos must watch dogs in equal proportion, guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites, prison walls have had to be modified to keep parkour-trained criminals from escaping, and the saying 'break a leg' is now taken literally. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lorynia's national animal is the Starling, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Elreithalyn.

Lorynia is ranked 250,614^th in the world and 9,609^th in The East Pacific for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -13.76 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.