The Unitarian State of Lodhs beard is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by VID Frederick Malkin with an iron fist, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, free-roaming dinosaurs, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 14.009 billion Loddhists are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of St Lodhinburg. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Lodhs beardian economy, worth a remarkable 5,559 trillion Loddhist Pounds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an amazing 396,863 Loddhist Pounds, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,694,692 per year while the poor average 59,672, a ratio of 28.4 to 1.

Designer cars make no distinction between poor people and speed bumps, public spending advocates dread when the government says they're here to help, lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work, and pinkie promises are a matter of life and death. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Lodhs beard's national animal is the Bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Lodhs beard is ranked 974^th in the world and 43^rd in Lazarus for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 1,070.6 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.