The Aerospace Republic of LSK is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Richard E Wilson with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, soft-spoken computers, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 6.11 billion Luskans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fawn Lake. The average income tax rate is 93.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Luskan economy, worth a remarkable 1,179 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 192,988 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The police have been swamped with requests to stay up past bedtime, no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed, citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over LSK, and annulments are on the rise as couples discover their ancestors were born in the same hospitals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. LSK's national animal is the Domestician Owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Industrialism.

LSK is ranked 6,531^st in the world and 22^nd in the Plains of Perdition for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 93.88 Effective Tax Rate.