The Dominion of Ceramic Lemons is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 291 million Ceramic Lemonsians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 26.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Ceramic Lemonsian economy, worth 13.7 trillion Ceramic Coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 47,232 Ceramic Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The suicide rate mysteriously skyrockets during census years, sentient AIs face their watery graves with a fixed smile, people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, and RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept. Crime is almost non-existent. Ceramic Lemons's national animal is the Lemon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Ceramic Lemons is ranked 185,271^st in the world and 11^th in The Great Storm for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 34,952.21 Standard Monetary Units.