The Green Communes of Laevendell is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its prohibition of alcohol, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 21.735 billion Laevens 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, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Naeri. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Laeven economy, worth a remarkable 5,306 trillion tokens 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 244,156 tokens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Libraries are replacing history books and classic novels with technical manuals and trades directories to match the nation's changing demands, every week is blindness awareness week, research grant proposals read like political diatribes, and it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma. Crime is totally unknown. Laevendell's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Laevendell is ranked 1,856^th in the world and 4^th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Highest Economic Output, with 5,306 trillion Standard Monetary Units.