The Catholic National Empire of Luukdom is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Napeloen Anthoney III with a fair hand, and remarkable for its triple-decker prams, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.26 billion Luukdomians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kriegsburg. The average income tax rate is 18.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Luukdomian economy, worth 61.1 trillion Kreigspounds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 48,503 Kreigspounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

The education system is being cleansed of all corporate influence, the value of the Kreigspound is directly tied to the strength of the previous hurricane season, schoolchildren must pass a six-month Ethics and Safety Committee Assessment before they are allowed to mix baking soda and vinegar, and the only religious freedom citizens have is which religion they want to oppress them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Luukdom's national animal is the Black Hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Luukdom is ranked 97,642^nd in the world and 181^st in Christians for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 98.74 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.