The Technocratic Federation of Laudesia is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Director Luther Cook with an iron fist, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, vat-grown people, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 22.35 billion Laudesians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Holmond. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Laudesian economy, worth an astonishing 11,691 trillion Gold Sterlings a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is a breathtaking 523,122 Gold Sterlings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People's charity begins and ends at home, cases of disease among the civilian population dwindle as civilian population dwindles, adult magazines are having a sales resurgence as internet anonymity disappears, and the Department of Reduction of Bureaucratic Red Tape has set up a working committee to investigate its own excessive paperwork. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Laudesia's national animal is the Lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Atheism.

Laudesia is ranked 23,753^rd in the world and 277^th in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 6,751.14 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.