The Commonwealth of New Lakemba is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Committee with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 19.708 billion New Lakembans 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 large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Canberra. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient New Lakemban economy, worth a remarkable 6,728 trillion New Lakembian Standard Kebabs a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 341,425 New Lakembian Standard Kebabs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping, the government is promoting multicultural values with the new 'Just Be Nice, OK?' initiative, the Treasury has been accused of flushing money down the toilet, and employers are finding it hard to screen candidates now that everyone gets A grades in their exams. Crime is totally unknown. New Lakemba's national animal is the Animal Kingdom, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Lakemba is ranked 291,233^rd in the world and 6,358^th in The North Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.09 kickbacks per hour.