The Grand republic of Laransa is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by krystal II with a fair hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.653 billion Laransini love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of arkavia. The average income tax rate is 91.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Laransin economy, worth 372 trillion crintas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 140,572 crintas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, EpiPen sales have skyrocketed, soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued, and crossbow bolts fill the skies if so much as a sparrow flies overhead. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Laransa's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Eltosonism.

Laransa is ranked 1,692^nd in the world and 278^th in Europe for Most Influential, scoring 57,370 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.