The Frozen Wasteland of Lyrasan is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by The Skylord with an even hand, and renowned for its frequent executions, disturbing lack of elderly people, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate population of 18.233 billion Lyrasayns are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Baywatch. The average income tax rate is 91.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Lyrasanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,354 trillion Lyran Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration. Average income is 74,269 Lyran Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity, the government will gladly pay you next Tuesday for a hamburger today, paralegals spend all day Hewlett-Packing attorneys' law briefs, and politicians accost strangers in the street to ask their problems. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lyrasan's national animal is the Buffalo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Violetism.

Lyrasan is ranked 79,735^th in the world and 3,850^th in Lazarus for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 120.56 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.