The Collective Knowledge of The Local Authority is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by The Keeper of the Red Tape with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, triple-decker prams, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.87 billion clerks are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of 7 819 edits. The average income tax rate is 74.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish bureaucratic economy, worth 145 trillion divs and spans a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Pizza Delivery, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 24,764 divs and spans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians, passive-aggressive congratulations cards inform mums-to-be that their pregnancy is their greatest achievement in life, autopsies often involve only cursory examination, and clowns are being rounded up and admitted to mental institutions. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Local Authority's national animal is the SimpleBot, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is broken code.

The Local Authority is ranked 21,877^th in the world and 135^th in Refugia for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 1,114.88 on the Clooney Contribution Index.