The Federation of Lunder is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by President Gui with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and national health service. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.787 billion Lunderiese 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Xeneto. The average income tax rate is 65.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lunderiese economy, worth 309 trillion steles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 172,962 steles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies, old folks reminisce about the last time someone was acquitted of a crime, funeral mourners ridesharing with the deceased are encouraged to sit on the coffin to save room, and children dream of becoming physicians and physicists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Lunder's national animal is the Night Owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Agnosticism.

Lunder is ranked 6,448^th in the world and 112^th in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 500.72 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.