The Grand republic of Laransa is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by krystal II with a fair hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.192 billion Laransini 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 large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of arkavia. The average income tax rate is 91.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Laransin economy, worth 463 trillion crintas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 144,929 crintas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Starving citizens are offered nuclear pasta, foreigners with shady pasts are fleeing the country, a bill to outlaw math homework has been submitted, and landless farmers wander forlornly in the government's many national parks. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Laransa's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Eltosonism.

Laransa is ranked 6,783^rd in the world and 149^th in Europe for Smartest Citizens, with 113.01 quips per hour.