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The United Socialist States of Lobroynia is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, cynical population of 243 million Lobroynians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 77.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Lobroynian economy, worth 7.47 trillion Lobrons 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Arms Manufacturing, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 30,761 Lobrons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals, politicians have to be granted day-release from prison to speak on bills, the "feminist protest" defence is increasingly common for cases of armed robbery, and everybody's got wood thanks to Leader. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lobroynia's national animal is the Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Lobroynia is ranked 49,357^th in the world and 93^rd in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Lowest Crime Rates, with 76.85 law-abiding acts per hour.