The Commonwealth of Upper Lenrinicia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by First Minister with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.241 billion Lenrinicians 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lunden. The average income tax rate is 83.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Upper Lenrinician economy, worth 139 trillion doubloons 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 Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 111,823 doubloons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Workers of "fairweather faith" claim six months of paid leave for holy days per year, the Finance Ministry posts hourly updates on where taxpayer money is spent, people queue for valets instead of parking spaces, and the combined alert sound of a nation simultaneously receiving a text message is a common cause of hearing damage. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Upper Lenrinicia's national animal is the beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Holy Family.

Upper Lenrinicia is ranked 5,846^th in the world and 188^th in the South Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 42.83 average smiles per day.