The Borderlands of Layona is a large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its frequent executions, lack of airports, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 190 million Layonans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 69.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Layonan economy, worth 6.37 trillion Skulls 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 Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. 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 33,524 Skulls, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bigtopian interference in domestic elections is always democratically sanctioned, authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets, moonshine has made a resurgence, and violence is always the answer in Layona. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Layona's national animal is the Hyena, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Layona is ranked 141,617^th in the world and 543^rd in Concord for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,215.12 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.