The Watchfires of LR-2 is a titanic, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, free-roaming dinosaurs, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, devout population of 21.483 billion LR-2ians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 40.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong LR-2ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,198 trillion $$s a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 55,799 $$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Blind dates reemerge as a necessary evil in the quest for love, textbooks are exactly twice as heavy as they used to be, public projects are synonymous with yawn-inducing conformity, and the LR-2ian Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. LR-2's national animal is the Death's-head hawkmoth, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

LR-2 is ranked 105,104^th in the world and 1^st in Little Rock for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,167.15 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.