The Federal Republic of Lion515 is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, devout population of 604 million Lion515ians 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 Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 50.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Lion515ian economy, worth 48.6 trillion catnips a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 80,415 catnips, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Punk-rockers and girl-bands are united in their loss of fashion statements, diplomats agree to the terms and conditions of peace treaties without reading them, construction workers evacuate work sites after finding sharp rocks on the ground, and calling dibs is an unalienable right. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lion515's national animal is the Meowing Cats, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lion515 is ranked 195,420^th in the world and 137^th in Lesbian for Smartest Citizens, with 24.86 quips per hour.