The Communities of Love And Hatred is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Web of Assemblies with a fair hand, and renowned for its rampant corporate plagiarism, daily referendums, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.492 billion Lovtredians 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, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Origin. The average income tax rate is 92.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lovtredian economy, worth 510 trillion Loves 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 significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 146,314 Loves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation is known abroad mostly for its Parliamentary antics, confessions don't count if suffixed with "izzle", witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials, and the police go to great efforts to seize contraband favored by politicians on the police oversight committee. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Love And Hatred's national animal is the Melanocor, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Love And Hatred is ranked 6,538^th in the world and 332^nd in The North Pacific for Safest, scoring 127.19 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.