The Kingdom of Latvoria is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by King Ludwig Von Dredd with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, smutty television, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 23.288 billion Latvorians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Latvoriastadt. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The powerhouse Latvorian economy, worth a remarkable 3,096 trillion Latvorian Creds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 132,944 Latvorian Creds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign leaders who don't applaud King Ludwig Von Dredd's speeches are regarded as enemies of Latvoria, a faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park, the once prosperous capital is in utter decline, and halberds are common 18th birthday presents. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Latvoria's national animal is the Mountain Hawk, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Church of Latvoria.

Latvoria is ranked 15,782^nd in the world and 578^th in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 9,017.32 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.