The Commonwealth of New Lakemba is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by The Committee with a fair hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, vat-grown people, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 20.958 billion New Lakembans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. 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 7,346 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 common. Average income is an amazing 350,541 New Lakembian Standard Kebabs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read, the amount welfare recipients spend on fertilizer has exploded, the tax agency is feared more than serial killers and terrorists, and lavish state dinners in New Canberra are the state's leading budgetary expenditure. 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 315,413^th in the world and 5,933^rd in The North Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -22.09 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.