The Republic of Lights Out is a mammoth, cultured nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, zero percent divorce rate, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 6.575 billion Lights Outians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 49.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Lights Outian economy, worth 254 trillion deniers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Cheese Exports industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Soda Sales, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 38,691 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A suspicious number of John Smiths are known to donate to Lights Outian politicians, abortions are routinely performed in the nation's hospitals, most believe it doesn't hurt to embrace free trade, and Calvinball players are lost for days as they wander the vast halls of their new academies. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lights Out's national animal is the kangaroo, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Lights Out is ranked 208,042^nd in the world and 4^th in Royales for Least Corrupt Governments, with 92.08 percentage of bribes refused.