The Czechoslovak Socialist State of Luralsk is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its unlimited-speed roads, compulsory military service, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 893 million Czechoslovaks are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Prague. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.9%.

The very strong Luralskian economy, worth 65.8 trillion Czechoslovak Korunas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Gambling, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 73,630 Czechoslovak Korunas, with the richest citizens earning 9.8 times as much as the poorest.

Blackface performers claim they are being deliberately ironic, foreigners are treated with great suspicion, it is mandatory to learn evolution in schools, and Leader has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a capable police force. Luralsk's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Luralsk is ranked 17,767^th in the world and 23^rd in Commonwealth of Liberty for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 5,375.71 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.