The Frozen Wasteland of Lyrasan is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by The Skylord with an even hand, and remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, parental licensing program, and irreverence towards religion. The quiet, industrious population of 18.181 billion Lyrasayns 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Baywatch. The average income tax rate is 91.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Lyrasanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,318 trillion Lyran Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Furniture Restoration industry. Average income is 72,502 Lyran Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Punk-rockers and girl-bands are united in their loss of fashion statements, the libraries of Lyrasan are staffed by lone, lonely librarians, 42 is the answer to life the universe and the new bus route into Baywatch, and cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lyrasan's national animal is the Buffalo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Violetism.

Lyrasan is ranked 48,557^th in the world and 2,341^st in Lazarus for Highest Poor Incomes, with 56,511.06 Standard Monetary Units.