The Kingdom of Luccombe is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by King Ceolwulf with a fair hand, and notable for its avant-garde cinema, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 18.968 billion Luccombers love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ash Grove. The average income tax rate is 80.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Luccombean economy, worth a remarkable 1,663 trillion vects a year, is highly specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 87,722 vects, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Textbooks are exactly twice as heavy as they used to be, patriotic citizens chant "there's only one Luccombe" at foreigners, meat prices are soaring as the farming industry struggle under government-imposed restrictions, and army doctors who come under attack defend themselves by using stethoscopes like nunchaku. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Luccombe's national animal is the Suffolk Punch, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is pagan.

Luccombe is ranked 261,267^th in the world and 13^th in Vectis for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6.56 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.