The Kingdom of The Langburn Islands is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by King George XII with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, parental licensing program, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.04 billion Langburnians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Onita. The average income tax rate is 94.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Langburnian economy, worth 402 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 132,293 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

The government subsidizes those who produce the worst results, men are enrolling into lady etiquette courses, a certain animated paperclip is enjoying his sunset years at the government's expense, and carbon-footprint restrictions are making businesses walk. Crime is totally unknown. The Langburn Islands's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Langburn Islands is ranked 10,443^rd in the world and 271^st in the South Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 112 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.