The Commonwealth of Lieran States is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by President Thorson with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.459 billion Lierans 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 government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Trimerida. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Lieran economy, worth 392 trillion Lieran Luns a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 113,510 Lieran Luns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sections of the police receive paramilitary training, Bigtopian interference in domestic elections is always democratically sanctioned, the decommissioned tank divisions of other nations are being bought up en masse by Lieran States, and apples shaped like baguettes have become a strange new food fad. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lieran States's national animal is the Western Ampithere, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lieran States is ranked 15,035^th in the world and 383^rd in the South Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 97 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.