The Imperial Chancellorate of Lyrasona is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Emperor Tobias IV with an iron fist, and renowned for its ritual sacrifices, ubiquitous missile silos, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 19.21 billion Lyrasonans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Surgi. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Lyrasonan economy, worth a remarkable 3,692 trillion Lyran Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 192,203 Lyran Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 5.6 times as much as the poorest.

Social networking sites have discussion groups devoted to planning terrorist attacks, pharmacists increasingly claim they are morally obligated to take long lunches, prisons in Lyrasona are the summer homes of murderers, and a friend in need is a friend with nuclear greed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lyrasona's national animal is the Koala Dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Soloconism.

Lyrasona is ranked 203,048^th in the world and 4^th in Icarus for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 802.56 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.