The Holy Society of Buddies of Ligmabaels is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Bingham Pastorio with an iron fist, and renowned for its avowedly heterosexual populace, prohibition of alcohol, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.173 billion Ligmabaelis are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Duinyurmam. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 47.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Ligmabaeli economy, worth a remarkable 1,229 trillion ligmas a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 294,724 ligmas, with the richest citizens earning 7.0 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks, factory workers offered 20-hour shifts are expected to thank their bosses for the wonderful opportunity, kids refer to anything below the neck as "the parts that shall not be named", and the roads are notorious throughout the region for their peril. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ligmabaels's national animal is the slugma, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Intercourse.

Ligmabaels is ranked 5,425^th in the world and 156^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Patriotic, with 76.53 flags saluted per person per day.