The Federation of Lower Nat Lux is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, ubiquitous missile silos, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 1.485 billion Natiluxians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry, Law & Order, and Education are also considered important, while Welfare and International Aid receive no funds. The average income tax rate is 62.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Natiluxian economy, worth 242 trillion notes 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an impressive 163,112 notes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Women complaining about lack of opportunity are told to "man up", overweight people receive reparations checks from fast-food chains, weekends are spent tilting at windmills, and freedom is never freely given — only when the alternative is too expensive. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lower Nat Lux's national animal is the hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Lower Nat Lux is ranked 24,916^th in the world and 1^st in Greater Nat Lux for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 7,209.66 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.