The Queen's State of Lugar Escuro is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its complete lack of public education and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 11.178 billion Lugar Escuroans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.2%.

The thriving Lugar Escuroan economy, worth 385 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 34,499 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 99,915 per year while the poor average 9,440, a ratio of 10.6 to 1.

Voting is voluntary. Crime is a serious problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Lugar Escuro's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lugar Escuro is ranked 251,353^rd in the world and 6^th in Mbabane for Most Patriotic, with 2.08 flags saluted per person per day.