The Most Serene Republic of Liko is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Liko with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed population of 6.593 billion Likoans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government prioritizes Education, although Environment, Industry, and Healthcare are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mesagoza. The average income tax rate is 75.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Likoan economy, worth 630 trillion Poké Dollars 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, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 95,621 Poké Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways, all work and no play has rendered the nation's children somewhat intelligent but also remarkably dull, schoolchildren have more trading cards than flash cards in their backpacks, and explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Liko's national animal is the Sprigatito, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Arceus.

Liko is ranked 253,154^th in the world and 12^th in Taiwan for Nicest Citizens, with 8.98 average smiles per day.