The United Kingdom of Greater Lexington is a large, efficient nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, public floggings, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 91 million Greater Lexingtonians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 13.2%.

The all-consuming Greater Lexingtonian economy, worth 7.53 trillion Euros a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Retail, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 82,746 Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

The weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme, souvenir shops that sell alphorns are taking advantage of gullible tourists, Koala is one of the most popular forenames in Greater Lexington, and Greater Lexingtonian husbands are dead good at fathering kids. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Greater Lexington's national animal is the Koala, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Greater Lexington is ranked 68,844^th in the world and 1^st in Alliance of Democratic Nations for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 110.99 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.