The Free Land of Lylan is a large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 74 million Lylanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 33.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Lylanian economy, worth 1.85 trillion Lylas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Tourism, Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 24,955 Lylas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Lylan's national animal is the Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lylan is ranked 260,250^th in the world and 10,794^th in Osiris for Largest Populations, with 74.0 million capita.