The People's Republic of The Five Lakes is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 393 million Lakers are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Chicago. The average income tax rate is 79.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Five Lakesian economy, worth 24.2 trillion Stels a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 61,542 Stels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Five Lakesian tourists are encouraged to hand out spare condoms to locals while on vacation, cheese lovers have a case of the bleus, tourists visiting the nation are harangued for being capitalist pig-dogs, and the canal flows through the land like a twisty turny thing. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Five Lakes's national animal is the Sparrow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

The Five Lakes is ranked 34,874^th in the world and 579^th in the South Pacific for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,455.66 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.