The Federal Republic of Lion1351 is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, soft-spoken computers, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 304 million Lion1351ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 35.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Lion1351ian economy, worth 20.1 trillion catnips 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, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Trout Farming, Tourism, and Woodchip Exports. 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 66,158 catnips, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Poaching has been on the rise after animals from the nation's zoos were released into the wild, tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread, the government advises foreign diplomats to speak softly and carry a big bag of cash, and national park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lion1351's national animal is the Meowing Cats, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lion1351 is ranked 284,301^st in the world and 37^th in Lesbian for Largest Populations, with 304 million capita.