The Wine Dark Sea of Lyon-1 is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, digital currency, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, devout population of 26.396 billion Lyon-1ians 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 Industry. The average income tax rate is 35.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Lyon-1ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,505 trillion $$s a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 57,052 $$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages, tourists avoid using the nation's bugged phones and monitored internet, Lyon-1ian TV is considered cruel and unusual punishment in other countries, and the nation grinds to a halt for afternoon tea. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lyon-1's national animal is the Laughing swordfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Lyon-1 is ranked 192,715^th in the world and 1^st in Lyon for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 520.37 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.