The State of Lake Pontchartrain is a gargantuan, pleasant nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 44.315 billion Lake Pontchartrainians 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 tiny, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Law & Order, Industry, and Welfare are also considered important, while International Aid and Defense aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Columbia Heights. The average income tax rate is 8.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Lake Pontchartrainian economy, worth a remarkable 1,829 trillion betales a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Gambling. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 41,293 betales, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Lake Pontchartrain has designated Columbia Heights as its capital city, The Governor has just been declared ruler of Lake Pontchartrain in an international press conference, calling dibs is an unalienable right, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime is relatively low. Lake Pontchartrain's national animal is the deer.

Lake Pontchartrain is ranked 47,056^th in the world and 1^st in Lake Pontchartrain for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 5,007.17 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.