The Technocratic Social States of Lanss is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Chancellor Nicholl with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, anti-smoking policies, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, cynical population of 2.203 billion Lanssians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Phoenix City. The average income tax rate is 87.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Lanssian economy, worth 251 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 114,104 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Aeroplane cockpits no longer have altimeters or airspeed indicators, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, bike rage is all the rage, and death row inmates cower in fear at the phrase "one-year anniversary". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lanss's national animal is the Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Catholic-Nichollism.

Lanss is ranked 179,029^th in the world and 1^st in The Region of Economic Cooperation for Least Corrupt Governments, with 90.32 Percentage Of Bribes Refused.