The Holy of New Lakemba is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Committee with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, keen interest in outer space, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic population of 15.47 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 large, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Environment, Administration, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Canberra. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient New Lakemban economy, worth a remarkable 4,763 trillion New Lakembian Standard Kebabs a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 307,900 New Lakembian Standard Kebabs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, geosynchronous satellites are now manned by unpaid interns, and new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in New Lakemba to be bombproof. Crime is totally unknown. New Lakemba's national animal is the Cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Lakemba is ranked 367^th in the world and 20^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 1,244.59 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.