The AWOL Soldiers of Lyrical Gambling Brigade is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The democratic population of 10.13 billion Lyrical Gambling Brigadiers 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 59.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Lyrical economy, worth 233 trillion vanishing paychecks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Soda Sales, Trout Farming, and Gambling. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 23,013 vanishing paychecks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lyrical Gambling Brigade's national animal is the obsessive slot-puller, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lyrical Gambling Brigade is ranked 44,999^th in the world and 1^st in The Sands for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 678.98 on the Clooney Contribution Index.