The Dominion of St Lyaos is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Leviathan Jemi with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.733 billion Lyaosians are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tó Shinaim. The average income tax rate is 65.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Lyaosian economy, worth 74.3 trillion bells a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Trout Farming, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 42,885 bells, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lyaosian police have to pay out of their own pockets for bulletproof vests, the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies, maximum security fish farms leave caged salmon pining for the fjords, and foreign musicians that Leviathan Jemi dislikes are turned away at the border. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. St Lyaos's national animal is the jellyfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

St Lyaos is ranked 115,822^nd in the world and 356^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring 1,847.19 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.