The Tower of High Sorcery of Losarcum is a titanic, orderly nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, free-roaming dinosaurs, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 13.748 billion Losarcumians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 90.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Losarcumian economy, worth a remarkable 1,762 trillion Steel Coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Retail, Arms Manufacturing, Pizza Delivery, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 128,236 Steel Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Strategic bombers are being converted into preschools, disposable antiseptic wipes are considered a social necessity, search-and-rescue organisations are the biggest employer in the country, and children are disappointed their allowances are no longer convertible to gold. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Losarcum's national animal is the Dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Losarcum is ranked 35,575^th in the world and 1^st in Bounvandar for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring 4,312.16 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.