The Frozen Wasteland of Lyrasan is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Skylord with an even hand, and remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, avant-garde cinema, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 18.206 billion Lyrasayns 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Baywatch. The average income tax rate is 91.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Lyrasanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,335 trillion Lyran Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Furniture Restoration industry. Average income is 73,345 Lyran Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Urban graffiti is hand-calligraphed in perfectly kerned elegant fonts, the nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere, the dartboard at the Lyrasanian Cancer Research Charity bears a picture of The Skylord's face, and increasing inclusiveness is a sign of the times. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lyrasan's national animal is the Buffalo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Violetism.

Lyrasan is ranked 293,232^nd in the world and 11,140^th in Lazarus for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -10.34 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.