The Lakeside Lodging of Lakeview Manor is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its public floggings, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 1.448 billion Lakeview Manorians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Spirituality, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 55.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Lakeview Manorian economy, worth 117 trillion Vacation Talers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 80,743 Vacation Talers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government buildings are being cleansed of anything that might have racist connotations, lines of trenches demarcate the nation's borders, crocodile roadkill is smeared across the asphalt of the new Formula One track, and Leader's new door-knocking campaign has the sweet taste of success. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lakeview Manor's national animal is the Caught Fish.

Lakeview Manor is ranked 66,254^th in the world and 1^st in Lake Verinne for Most Developed, scoring 72.26 on the Human Development Index.