The Kingdom of The PrideLands is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by King Simba with an iron fist, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.85 billion Pride Landers are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pride Rock. The average income tax rate is 68.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Pride Lander economy, worth 29.0 trillion Foods a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Pizza Delivery, and Book Publishing. Average income is 15,697 Foods, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

King Simba has just been declared ruler of The PrideLands in an international press conference, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, King Simba has been known to make speeches in fishing waders, and the government-sponsored autobiography 'A King Simba For All Seasons' has only been bought by the most loyal of King Simba's supporters. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The PrideLands's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Circle of Life.

The PrideLands is ranked 229,236^th in the world and 144^th in Africa for Highest Food Quality, scoring 9.34 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.