The United Socialist States of Lightning4004 is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Lightning with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, daily referendums, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.559 billion Lightning Citizens 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zeus's Throne. The average income tax rate is 85.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lightning4004ian economy, worth 178 trillion deniers 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 Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 114,400 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rioting during the nation's hosting of ORDER caused one million deniers of property damage, it turns out that trees grow on deniers, the nation's leader is normally just referred to as "snuggle-wuggle-huggy-bear", and country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lightning4004's national animal is the falcon, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Lightning4004 is ranked 20,117^th in the world and 1^st in Bethsaida for Lowest Crime Rates, with 92.77 law-abiding acts per hour.