The Department of Lozere is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Jean-Paul Pourquier with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 23.623 billion Lozériens are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mende. The average income tax rate is 28.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Lozérien economy, worth a remarkable 1,089 trillion francs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 46,121 francs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Libraries have replaced overdue book fines with mandatory mental health assessments, employees who skip lunch to avoid sub-par cafeteria food risk getting fired, drug lords often avoid prison time by teaching "chemistry" classes to underprivileged youth, and no personal detail is too tiny for the suede-denim census police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lozere's national animal is the sheep, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Lozere is ranked 196,411^th in the world and 55^th in Department Store for Highest Average Incomes, with 46,121.8 Standard Monetary Units.