The Community of Laurat is a fledgling, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 6 million Lauratians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 46.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The fair Lauratian economy, worth 187 billion Laurats a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Pizza Delivery, Gambling, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 31,108 Laurats, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bug burgers are extra crunchy, hospitals fear government fines more than terrorist ransoms, young children are regularly seen wagering pocket money at blackjack tables, and TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas. Crime is totally unknown. Laurat's national animal is the Laurat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Laurat is ranked 160,493^rd in the world and 356^th in Horizon for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring zero on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.