The Republic of Lukande is a large, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 133 million Lukandeans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 75.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Lukandean economy, worth 1.96 trillion Lukandic Laris a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 14,726 Lukandic Laris, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tourists visiting the nation are harangued for being capitalist pig-dogs, there's no cure or sympathy for the common cold, postcards from Lukandean driving test centres are popular souvenirs, and the nation is automatically assumed to be the source of all unmarked weapons. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lukande's national animal is the panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lukande is ranked 111,158^th in the world and 539^th in Talonia for Nicest Citizens, with 14.16 average smiles per day.