The Insular Area of Lantern Cay is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, punitive income tax rates, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 2.27 billion Lantern Cayians 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, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 59.6%.

The all-consuming Lantern Cayian economy, worth 233 trillion Island Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 102,606 Island Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 372,051 per year while the poor average 20,163, a ratio of 18.5 to 1.

The country is rumored to be a Brancalandian puppet state, a widely accepted trade policy is "tit-for-tat", being nicknamed "Orange Face" has done Leader's credibility no favours, and enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lantern Cay's national animal is the Island Doggo, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Lantern Cay is ranked 63,794^th in the world and 1^st in Lights for Highest Average Incomes, with 102,606.01 Standard Monetary Units.