The Republic of Lanalai is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Antonidas with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.983 billion Lanalaians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Laia. The average income tax rate is 70.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Lanalaian economy, worth 124 trillion deniers a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 62,740 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is on the side of working people (like CEOs, bankers and billionaires), sales of disinfectant wipes have skyrocketed, elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation, and hell is not always other people. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lanalai's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lanalai is ranked 140,489^th in the world and 524^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 77.1 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.