The Grand Duchy of Lagentium is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, public floggings, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 440 million Lagentians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 14.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Lagentian economy, worth 25.8 trillion Quinariuses a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 58,636 Quinariuses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Police officers often conceal their identities to safeguard against public complaints, twins move across the country to avoid being accused of the other's crimes, the country is governed by a clique of political insiders known colloquially as The Establishment, and food voucher forgeries are causing headaches for the police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lagentium's national animal is the Horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lagentium is ranked 119,627^th in the world and 2,577^th in The East Pacific for Safest, scoring 73.7 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.