The Community of Lakes of Fault is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Chief Tsmequsmear with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 7.86 billion Lakes of Faultians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 74.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Lakes of Faultian economy, worth 134 trillion florins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is 17,164 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There are no more heroes any more, the number of eyes rolled per maths lesson is increasing exponentially, the government invades its allies more than its enemies, and children fear compulsory visits to their spiritual advisors more than the dentist. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lakes of Fault's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Lakes of Fault religion.

Lakes of Fault is ranked 322,436^th in the world and 11^th in Yecyma for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring zero on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.