The Federal Republic of Lion539 is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, compulsory gun ownership, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed population of 545 million Lion539ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41.5%.

The strong Lion539ian economy, worth 39.0 trillion catnips a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 71,508 catnips, with the richest citizens earning 6.6 times as much as the poorest.

Tree farms across the nation are overrun by clipboard-wielding biologists, cowboys often wear wolfskin jackets to the saloon, citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling", and there's no escape from the rule of law... or police brutality. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lion539's national animal is the Meowing Cats, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lion539 is ranked 101,126^th in the world and 345^th in Concord for Highest Average Incomes, with 71,508.88 Standard Monetary Units.