The District of Dog Lake is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Lord Governor with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, smutty television, and suspicion of poets. The quiet, industrious population of 49.675 billion Lakors are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District City. The average income tax rate is 97.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Lakor economy, worth a remarkable 9,906 trillion aurums a year, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 199,423 aurums, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pocket calculators are seen as status symbols for the ostentatiously wealthy, male politicians lose their jobs for staring too long at their female counterparts, bad punctuation has come to a full stop, and hypochondriacs demand treatment for genetic disorders they don't have. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dog Lake's national animal is the buffalo, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Dog Lake is ranked 305,084^th in the world and 1^st in Dog Lake for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -13.75 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.