The Sinistre Mouroir of Krippling Lament is a titanic, safe nation, notable for its soft-spoken computers, anti-smoking policies, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 15.734 billion Krippled Lamentians 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, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kosmopolis. The average income tax rate is 98.7%.

The very strong Krippling Lamentian economy, worth a remarkable 2,298 trillion $K☠Llars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 146,088 $K☠Llars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Trains and passengers alike are often late, mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights, traumatised refugees have a full bedpan shoved into their hands along with their immigration papers, and psychiatrists that date patients are congratulated on their romantic conquests. Crime is totally unknown. Krippling Lament's national animal is the gymnosophist, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Krippling Lament is ranked 34,877^th in the world and 8^th in Absolution for Most Developed, scoring 81.32 on the Human Development Index.