The United Republic of Lieges is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by President Potrus Soustas with an even hand, and remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, digital currency, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cheerful population of 29.765 billion Liègians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ricads. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Liegesian economy, worth a remarkable 6,741 trillion Ownuans 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 226,494 Ownuans, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens who plan overseas vacations are barred from running for political office, Liegesian husbands are dead good at fathering kids, President Potrus Soustas is strangely popular with male politicians' wives, and national park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lieges's national animal is the Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Atheism.

Lieges is ranked 1,172^nd in the world and 25^th in Europe for Most Cultured, scoring 342 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.