The Community of Lapa is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic, devout population of 489 million Lapans enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of altavista. The average income tax rate is 54.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Lapan economy, worth 11.0 trillion doubloons 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, Uranium Mining, and Tourism. 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 22,535 doubloons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, government officials sit helplessly as they are labelled 'Pompous Womples' by celebrities, national chefs believe that you can eat anything so long as you deep fry it first, and moonshine has made a resurgence. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lapa's national animal is the axolotl, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Lapa is ranked 281,059^th in the world and 16^th in Corvinian Spanish Zone for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 349.7 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.