The Golden Technocracy of Laudesia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Orator Lux V8 with a fair hand, and renowned for its smutty television, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 27.407 billion Laudesians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Holmond. The income tax rate is 100.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Laudesian economy, worth an astonishing 17,634 trillion Digital Sterlings a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is a breathtaking 643,433 Digital Sterlings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Surprising numbers of poor people are protesting against taxing the rich, passwords to nuclear codes must now contain upper and lower case characters, graffiti graces every city's streets, and a certain animated paperclip is enjoying his sunset years at the government's expense. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Laudesia's national animal is the Wyvern, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Laudesia is ranked 96,621^st in the world and 831^st in the West Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,192.32 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.