The United Kingdom of The Light States is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its public floggings, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 1.087 billion Lightians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, moralistic government prioritizes Law & Order, with Welfare, Defense, and Public Transport also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Londonia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 42.2%.

The strong Lightian economy, worth 48.5 trillion rubles a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Arms Manufacturing, and Pizza Delivery. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 44,658 rubles, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 126,261 per year while the poor average 12,636, a ratio of 10.0 to 1.

Military recruitment numbers are down as citizens object on 'moral grounds', rare ecosystems are being ground into profit at a record pace, a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, and hospitals have poor data security but send lots of bodies to be encrypted. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Light States's national animal is the kangaroo, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

The Light States is ranked 233,891^st in the world and 1^st in Regal Britannia for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -3.96 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.