The Queendom of Luminous Sweet is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, ritual sacrifices, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The devout population of 8.622 billion Luminous Sweetians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 31.0%.

The Luminous Sweetian economy, worth 458 trillion guilders a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Cheese Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 53,189 guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Luminous Sweet has been recently classified as an international menace after 'liberating' several nearby territories, the entire entry for Luminous Sweet in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the World reads 'mostly harmless', oil executives can be seen reluctantly cleaning oil-soaked birds, and the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Luminous Sweet's national animal is the kiwi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Luminous Sweet is ranked 115,100^th in the world and 1,504^th in Remembrance for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,894.48 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.