The Republic of Libate is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Prime Minister Velma Mincit with a fair hand, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 33.858 billion Libateans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Olland. The average income tax rate is 73.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Libatean economy, worth a remarkable 3,819 trillion Silver Dollars a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 112,815 Silver Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world, woe-is-me olympics is the fastest growing collegiate sport, exiles see that the line where the sky meets the sea is just clouds and rain, and entomologists flock to Olland for its remarkable gadfly population. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Libate's national animal is the Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Libate is ranked 32,631^st in the world and 24^th in The Union of Democratic States for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 239.73 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.