The District of Lord Volume is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The democratic population of 36.6 billion Lord Volumeans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Spirituality, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 68.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but inefficient Lord Volumean economy, worth a remarkable 1,027 trillion betales a year, is highly specialized and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 28,084 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is compulsory, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, and voting is voluntary. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lord Volume's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Lord Volume is ranked 113,765^th in the world and 70^th in State for Nicest Citizens, with 13.62 average smiles per day.