The Republic of Lasien is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its soft-spoken computers, complete lack of prisons, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 20.595 billion Lasienians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Conres. The average income tax rate is 88.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Lasienian economy, worth a remarkable 1,812 trillion gons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. Average income is 87,991 gons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader toils in solitude while relatives party on a remote tropical island, primetime re-runs of The Black and White Minstrel Show are a critical hit, roadside walls are being built and mother nature is paying for it, and voter turnout for the election of the Junior Assistant for Non-Digital Media Strategies has been unsurprisingly low. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lasien's national animal is the phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Lasien is ranked 21,168^th in the world and 2^nd in The Socialist States of Upper Canada for Most Cultured, scoring 86 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.