The Commonwealth of New Lakemba is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by The Committee with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, pith helmet sales, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 19.754 billion New Lakembans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Canberra. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient New Lakemban economy, worth a remarkable 6,746 trillion New Lakembian Standard Kebabs a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 341,541 New Lakembian Standard Kebabs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies, torture is illegal, doctors accused of having no heart reply that cardiology isn't their speciality, and literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts. Crime is totally unknown. New Lakemba's national animal is the Animal Kingdom, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Lakemba is ranked 2,984^th in the world and 122^nd in The North Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 65.46 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.