The Federation of Lycand is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Wolfgang Kipling with an iron fist, and renowned for its infamous sell-swords, rampant corporate plagiarism, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.634 billion Lycandians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moon. The average income tax rate is 83.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lycandian economy, worth 920 trillion claws a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 163,336 claws, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

The average cargo freighter spends more than half its service life undergoing safety inspections, a rebrand a day keeps the debt collectors away, lavish state dinners in Moon are the state's leading budgetary expenditure, and Wolfgang Kipling shot first. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lycand's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lycand is ranked 288,121^st in the world and 3^rd in Sigma Wolf for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -6.69 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.