The Republic of Lanate is a tiny, genial nation, renowned for its national health service and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 16 million Lanateans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 30.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Lanatean economy, worth 881 billion aures a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 55,051 aures, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Lanatean Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances, the arms industry is strictly regulated, Lanate City's main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight, and the average video game can be completed over lunch break. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lanate's national animal is the crocodile, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Lanate is ranked 155,407^th in the world and 1,604^th in the South Pacific for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring zero on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.