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The Galactic Empire of Lumeris is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its feral children, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 691 million Lumeri are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Defense, with Spirituality, Industry, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Education and International Aid are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.5%.

The thriving Lumeri economy, worth 35.5 trillion Lulus a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 51,328 Lulus, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 192,603 per year while the poor average 9,557, a ratio of 20.2 to 1.

Road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans, obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals, ministers are now allowed to put suggestions in the governmental suggestion box, and barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the Lumeris City Natural History Museum. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Lumeris's national animal is the Hakine Falcon.

Lumeris is ranked 121,088^th in the world and 41^st in Starlight for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 2,164.86 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.