The United Arab Republics of Lysheim is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Amal Ayad with a fair hand, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 11.426 billion Lyshians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elyaamud. The average income tax rate is 68.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lysheimian economy, worth a remarkable 2,736 trillion Riyaadhs a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 239,484 Riyaadhs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Years of counter-terrorism planning are foiled by small details, passwords to nuclear codes must now contain upper and lower case characters, animal liberationists receive government funding to break into animal research labs, and the seventh son of a seventh son is fated to be a millionaire. Crime is totally unknown. Lysheim's national animal is the Golden Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Lysheim is ranked 18,397^th in the world and 36^th in Gay for Lowest Crime Rates, with 91.05 law-abiding acts per hour.