The Republic of Lancs is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Nik Kopecky with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, daily referendums, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 15.743 billion Lancastrians 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 medium-sized, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lancaster. The average income tax rate is 90.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lancsian economy, worth a remarkable 3,228 trillion Widgets a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 205,056 Widgets, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Abortions are routinely performed in the nation's hospitals, Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity, children are raised bilingual from an early age, and every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Lancs's national animal is the Otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Lancs is ranked 329,966^th in the world and 68^th in Gay for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -20.2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.