The United Socialist States of Lanss is a huge, efficient nation, ruled by Chancellor Nicholl with an even hand, and notable for its national health service, sprawling nuclear power plants, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 927 million Lanssians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Phoenix City. The average income tax rate is 78.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Lanssian economy, worth 101 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 broadly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 109,793 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, an endless multinational bureaucracy connects the Red Bloc, internal strife within the Red Bloc crumbles in the face of fiery rhetoric, and the studies of art and philosophy are banned. 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 lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lanss is ranked 165,966^th in the world and 4^th in The Region of Economic Cooperation for Highest Drug Use, scoring 5.4 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.