The Republic of Lancs is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Nik Kopecky with a fair hand, and renowned for its national health service, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 15.714 billion Lancastrians 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 medium-sized, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lancaster. The average income tax rate is 90.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lancsian economy, worth a remarkable 3,216 trillion Widgets a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 204,685 Widgets, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is mandatory to learn evolution in schools, edutainment video games are taking Lancs's students to the next level, abortions are routinely performed in the nation's hospitals, and Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity. Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Lancs's national animal is the Otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Lancs is ranked 10,563^rd in the world and 14^th in Gay for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 415.82 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.