The State of Lonsdale is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion, complete lack of public education, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 23.925 billion Lonsdaleans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.1%.

The powerhouse Lonsdalean economy, worth 844 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 35,317 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 117,549 per year while the poor average 7,906, a ratio of 14.9 to 1.

Lonsdale has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, The Governor has just been declared ruler of Lonsdale in an international press conference, the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly, and the "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making Lonsdaleans any less frightened. Crime is a serious problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Lonsdale's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lonsdale is ranked 263,184^th in the world and 498^th in United States of America for Lowest Crime Rates, with 43.49 law-abiding acts per hour.