The Commonwealth of New Lakemba is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by The Committee with a fair hand, and notable for its smutty television, anti-smoking policies, and unlimited-speed roads. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 24.83 billion New Lakembans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Lakemba. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient New Lakemban economy, worth a remarkable 9,616 trillion New Lakemban Standard Kebabs a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 387,312 New Lakemban Standard Kebabs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome, young children are learning advanced physics to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa Claus, citizens can't decide whether to be proud or horrified by the country's colonial history, and 3D printed organs are a breath of new life for the sick and elderly. Crime is totally unknown. New Lakemba's national animal is the Animal Kingdom, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Lakemba is ranked 215^th in the world and 8^th in The North Pacific for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 25,930.66 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.