The Federation of Lycand is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Wolfgang Kipling with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.666 billion Lycandians 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moon. The average income tax rate is 83.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Lycandian economy, worth 943 trillion claws a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 166,388 claws, with the richest citizens earning 5.0 times as much as the poorest.

Cancer rates amongst the richest in society are inexplicably on the rise, the nation's soldiers often believe they're in the Air Force, employers may fire workers without giving any reason, and there's more than one way to skin a diplomat. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lycand's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lycand is ranked 21,216^th in the world and 2^nd in Sigma Wolf for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 4,646.83 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.