The Holy Empire of Medium Lavoss is a very large, efficient nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 366 million Holy Lavossians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry, Spirituality, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Welfare and Social Policy are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lav-Aviv. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Medium Lavossian economy, worth 40.3 trillion Lavs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 110,167 Lavs, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 858,999 per year while the poor average 3,617, a ratio of 237 to 1.

No suburban lawn is complete without barbed wire and landmines, only government officials may operate computers, parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list, and wars are forgotten but not forgiven. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Medium Lavoss's national animal is the Barn owl, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Medium Lavoss is ranked 7,474^th in the world and 1^st in Polar South for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 103,227.04 Standard Monetary Units.