The Democratic Republic of Listam is a large, safe nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, national health service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 89 million Listams are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 35.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Listam economy, worth 4.57 trillion bens a year, is led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 51,389 bens, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

It is often said that only Leader could bring down Dàguó, collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise, members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods, and the dwindling faithful in the nation make expensive pilgrimages to the remaining places of worship. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Listam's national animal is the emu.

Listam is ranked 274,466^th in the world and 6,068^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -57.01 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.