The Commonwealth of New Lakemba is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by The Committee with a fair hand, and notable for its vat-grown people, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 11.557 billion New Lakembans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Environment, Healthcare, and Welfare are also considered important, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Canberra. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient New Lakemban economy, worth a remarkable 3,130 trillion New Lakembian Standard Kebabs a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 270,870 New Lakembian Standard Kebabs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

There's a bright dawn ahead for New Lakemba, science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous, the military recognizes no difference between male and female soldiers, and they say that New Lakembans made a dessert and called it peace. Crime is totally unknown. New Lakemba's national animal is the Animal Kingdom, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Lakemba is ranked 134,587^th in the world and 5,804^th in The North Pacific for Most Pro-Market, scoring 36 on the Rand Index.