The Wine Dark Sea of Luzon-1 is a gargantuan, genial nation, notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 28.27 billion Luzon-1ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 50.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Luzon-1ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,516 trillion $$s a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 53,633 $$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Garden stores are not allowed to sell water butts, postcards from Luzon-1ian driving test centres are popular souvenirs, tourists are duped into trimming hedges for the horsy-set, and foragers descend on national cemeteries for 'all-you-can-dig-up' extravaganzas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Luzon-1's national animal is the Dolly Varden, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Luzon-1 is ranked 270,220^th in the world and 1^st in Luzon for Most Cultured, scoring 59 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.