The Communities of Love And Hatred is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Web of Assemblies with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, ubiquitous missile silos, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.559 billion Lovtredians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Origin. The average income tax rate is 93.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lovtredian economy, worth 522 trillion Loves 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 146,837 Loves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Warfare increasingly resembles a video game, they who do not work shall not eat, the only soporific permitted during sermons is the preacher's voice, and explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Love And Hatred's national animal is the Melanocor, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Love And Hatred is ranked 8,359^th in the world and 401^st in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 445.62 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.