The Empire of Libentinsh is a tiny, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 9 million Libentinshians enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 63.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling Libentinshian economy, worth 141 billion lire 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 Beef-Based Agriculture, Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. 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 15,696 lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Libentinsh's national animal is the ASLAN, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Libentinsh is ranked 270,697^th in the world and 25^th in Biberland for Highest Poor Incomes, with 14,447.26 Standard Monetary Units.