The Word Count Seeking Land of A Running Man is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Lord Lyton with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, smutty television, and strictly enforced bedtime. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 31.1 billion Novel Writers enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government is primarily concerned with Education, although Industry, Healthcare, and Law & Order are also considered important, while Spirituality and Defense aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Library. The average income tax rate is 9.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Writing Novels economy, worth a remarkable 2,531 trillion wordcounts a year, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 81,392 wordcounts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones, parking lots are littered with coffee cups and doughnut crumbs, sniffer dogs check train passengers for body odour, and the country behaves just like a group of independent provinces all stacked up under a trench coat. Crime is totally unknown. A Running Man's national animal is the novel, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

A Running Man is ranked 19,081^st in the world and 6^th in Antarctic Oasis for Highest Food Quality, scoring 119.99 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.