The Confederacy of Lamanche is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service. The quiet, industrious population of 365 million Lamancheans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 28.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Lamanchean economy, worth 17.3 trillion deniers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 47,378 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lamanche's national animal is the cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lamanche is ranked 248,913^th in the world and 5,962^nd in the Rejected Realms for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -28.28 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.