The Federal Republic of Lion483 is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, daily referendums, and frequent executions. The compassionate, cynical population of 529 million Lion483ians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 66.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Lion483ian economy, worth 46.2 trillion catnips a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 87,287 catnips, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's nothing more Lion483ian than revanchism, supervisors in Lion483 commonly tie bells on their necks to alert employees of their presence, collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise, and most believe it doesn't hurt to embrace free trade. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lion483's national animal is the Meowing Cats, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lion483 is ranked 290,500^th in the world and 1,108^th in Concord for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 24.23 on the Bus Surprisal Index.