The People's Republic of Liphia is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Flying Spaghetti Monster with a fair hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, avant-garde cinema, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 12.577 billion Liphians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Place. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Liphian economy, worth a remarkable 2,489 trillion Jyloris a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 197,937 Jyloris, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to Place to enjoy their national art, most ambassadors from Liphia retire only a few years after being appointed, mollycoddled youths run the country, and science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Liphia's national animal is the Blåhaj, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Marxism-Leninism.

Liphia is ranked 325,078^th in the world and 228^th in Refugia for Rudest Citizens, with 4.74 insults per minute.