The Housekeeper of Von Lycaon is a mammoth, safe nation, renowned for its prohibition of alcohol, parental licensing program, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 8.82 billion Von Lycaonians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 19.1%.

The powerhouse Von Lycaonian economy, worth 606 trillion kronor a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Furniture Restoration, and Retail. Average income is 68,771 kronor, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 257,507 per year while the poor average 12,849, a ratio of 20.0 to 1.

Odysseying merchant sailors swear that they've heard sirens in the western seas, more than one company makes the board game Monopoly, police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds, and the country's population is reported with a margin of error of several billions. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Von Lycaon's national animal is the giraffe.

Von Lycaon is ranked 206,189^th in the world and 2,657^th in Remembrance for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -3.87 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.