The Free Land of Laughterandsunshine is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, hatred of cheese, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 40.136 billion Laughterandsunshineans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Environment, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 78.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Laughterandsunshinean economy, worth a remarkable 2,786 trillion Doughs a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 69,438 Doughs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Up to 40% of voters can finally read the issues they're deciding on, shopkeepers use microscopes to verify the authenticity of banknotes, war vets look after war animals, and the government has pinkie-promised never to use its veto power except in an emergency. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Laughterandsunshine's national animal is the German Shepherd, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Laughterandsunshine is ranked 288,860^th in the world and 129^th in Canada for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -15.97 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.