The Republic of Liwudprand is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 1.894 billion Liwudprandians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of solferino. The average income tax rate is 92.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Liwudprandian economy, worth 202 trillion lire a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 106,798 lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has little issue with allowing its citizens to languish in foreign jails, the national guard is mobilized whenever a mother gets separated from her child at the mall, hostage-takers offer loyalty scheme points for prompt payment, and the slowest students feel vaguely targeted by their Mendelian Inheritance coursework. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Liwudprand's national animal is the Owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is catholicism.

Liwudprand is ranked 209,335^th in the world and 454^th in the Outback for Largest Populations, with 1.89 billion capita.