The Protectorate of Lamp Post XVI is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The cynical, devout population of 17.933 billion Lamp Post XVIians 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 enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Lamp Post XVIian economy, worth 446 trillion pendulums a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 24,878 pendulums, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lamp Post XVI's national animal is the polar bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lamp Post XVI is ranked 95,365^th in the world and 1^st in Superfunnorthkorealand for Most Corrupt Governments, with 14.5 kickbacks per hour.