The Empire of Laniron is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its anti-smoking policies, smutty television, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 15.395 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, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 90.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lanironian economy, worth a remarkable 1,736 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 112,824 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 296,761^st in the world and 175^th in Karma for Lowest Overall Tax Burden, scoring -212.48 on the Hayek Index.