The Colony of Lyre is a small, genial nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 23 million Lyreans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 36.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The weak Lyrean economy, worth 830 billion Harps a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 36,096 Harps, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists, administrative districts are increasingly defined by their taste in housing architecture, the economy is green and the air is black, and the comic book series 'Leader and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lyre's national animal is the Narwhal, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Lyre is ranked 123,766^th in the world and 2,118^th in The North Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 2,611.35 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.