The United Socialist States of Luniandez is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Mathemayi with an even hand, and notable for its compulsory military service, pith helmet sales, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 9.407 billion Lunians 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 Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Olinda. The average income tax rate is 92.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lunian economy, worth a remarkable 1,168 trillion Lunis 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 and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 124,256 Lunis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Max Barry is this year's Miss Luniandez, election ballot papers are so long that unused ones are recycled as toilet roll, most of the population has had bad experiences with hoes, and laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Luniandez's national animal is the Lunian monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Luniandez is ranked 14,312^th in the world and 615^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 337.5 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.