The Great Socialist Jamahiriya of Lybise is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Brotherly Leader Muammar Gaddafi with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, avant-garde cinema, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 3.032 billion Libyans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tripoli. The average income tax rate is 74.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Libyan economy, worth 381 trillion Dinars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 125,738 Dinars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government's foreign policy statements are less threatening than a World Assembly cease-and-desist letter, it takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle, saying the word 'eggplant' is now a criminal offense, and citizens who fail to follow the official national religion are executed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lybise's national animal is the Steppe Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Islam.

Lybise is ranked 33,490^th in the world and 100^th in Talonia for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 50.74 on the Kitten Softness Rating.