The Empire of Laniron is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its infamous sell-swords, complete lack of prisons, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate population of 15.783 billion Lanironians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 91.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lanironian economy, worth a remarkable 1,791 trillion Lanis a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 113,537 Lanis, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government subsidises medicines of mass destruction, tabloids publicly shun nurses for not calling home on the weekends, Leader steals from the rich and gives to the needy, and birth rates have hit an all-time low. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Laniron's national animal is the Kiwi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Laniron is ranked 209,879^th in the world and 164^th in Karma for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 50.56 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.