The Empire of Lux et mors is a very large, genial nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working population of 194 million Lux et morsians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 25.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Lux et morsian economy, worth 12.5 trillion quadriviums a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 64,423 quadriviums, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them, euthanasia is illegal, people say that cubists are rubbish because they can't draw faces, and children seem to be getting better at lying these days. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lux et mors's national animal is the Feneco, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Lux et mors is ranked 60,513^th in the world and 4^th in Retardia for Safest, scoring 98.78 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.