The Republic of Lascandra is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by President Naomi Stagmunt with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, hard-working population of 8.749 billion Lascandrans 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nikipole. The average income tax rate is 77.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lascandran economy, worth a remarkable 1,369 trillion Lascandrish pounds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 156,491 Lascandrish pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, anti-vaxxers claim that injected children are prone to psychotic breaks when they see the 'Queen of Diamonds' playing card, construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, and rude retail employees are now even ruder homeless panhandlers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Lascandra's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lascandra is ranked 11,510^th in the world and 1^st in Lascandrish alliance for Highest Poor Incomes, with 117,466 Standard Monetary Units.